Lot 313
A Tibetan llama and its foal, probably from the Barrackpore menagerie, by a follower of Sita Ram Oudh, circa 1815-20
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
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A Tibetan llama and its foal, probably from the Barrackpore menagerie, by a follower of Sita Ram
Oudh, circa 1815-20
Oudh, circa 1815-20
watercolour on paper watermarked H... & Murdoch 181[5], inscribed in lower border Lama of Thibet & Foal with scale for each animal
181 x 224 mm.
181 x 224 mm.
Footnotes
The painting strongly resembles two works from an album of natural history works in the British Library (Add.Or.4952-78), assembled probably by Lady Hastings (wife of Lord Moira, later Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal 1813-23). Two volumes contained drawings of the birds and animals in their menagerie at Barrackpore. There seem to have been a number of artists working for them there. Most are in the harder Calcutta style but there are a couple that are more in Sita Ram's style, including one of the llama and its young in the park (Add.Or.4953). There is another (Add.Or. 5002), depicting a llama with two monkeys, with a very similar landscape background, as well as the scale in the lower border. See J. P. Losty in W. Dalrymple (ed.), Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, London 2019, pp. 172-174.