Lot 197•
An album of ninety-nine watercolours and miniatures collected by Augustus W. Honner Company School, North India, mid-19th Century
2 April 2009, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,680 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn album of ninety-nine watercolours and miniatures collected by Augustus W. Honner
Company School, North India, mid-19th Century
Company School, North India, mid-19th Century
comprising 84 portraits; one watercolour depicting Ranjit Singh on horseback; five watercolour studies of birds; nine miniatures of Hindu deities; title page with six lines of nasta'liq calligraphy with floral illumination written in perhaps ironic praise of Honner and dated 1865, watercolour and gouache on paper, mounted in an album, gilt-stamped morocco
202 x 144 mm. and smaller; album 315 x 260 mm.
202 x 144 mm. and smaller; album 315 x 260 mm.
Footnotes
From an album of paintings collected by Augustus W. Honner, an officer in the Indian Army, the 1st Grenadiers, stationed in Bombay circa 1865. Two other portraits from this album were sold at Maggs Bros. (see Oriental Miniatures and Illumination, Maggs Bros. Bulletin, London, June 1977, nos. 60 and 61. See also the sales in these rooms, Islamic and Indian Art, 14th October 2004, lot 154; 28th April 2005, lot 250; and 12th and 13th October 2005, lots 427 and 428.