Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Rev. Canon Pearce-Higgins, Sotheby's 1969.
  Nicholas Vilag, 1970.
  Christie's, London, 17th June 1998, lot 160.
  
  The Martiniere at Lucknow was first designed as a palace-tomb by the eccentric French military adventurer Major-General Claude Martin (1735-1800), who served under the Nawab Asaf ud-Daula from 1776. The building was completed in 1795, although wings were added in 1840, and it now houses a boys' school.
  
  For further references see:
  M. Archer, Company School Drawings in the India Office Library, London 1972, pp. 155 and 196.
  M. Archer, Company Paintings, London 1992, nos. 89 and 90.

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Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art

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