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CALCUTTA GRANT (COLESWORTHY) Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta, FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, W. Thacker, [c.1850] image 1
CALCUTTA GRANT (COLESWORTHY) Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta, FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, W. Thacker, [c.1850] image 2
CALCUTTA GRANT (COLESWORTHY) Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta, FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, W. Thacker, [c.1850] image 3
From the Collection of Brij and Kanishka Sharma
Lot 88

CALCUTTA
GRANT (COLESWORTHY) Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta, FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, W. Thacker, [c.1850]

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CALCUTTA

GRANT (COLESWORTHY) Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta, FIRST EDITION, lithographed title and 37 portrait plates, title with light stain and repair to inner border touching rule border, modern green half calf over marbled boards, large 8vo, Calcutta, W. Thacker, [c.1850]

Footnotes

Colesworthy Grant (1813-1889) arrived in India in 1832, as a freelance journalist and artist. The portraits included in Public Characters first appeared in the India Review, Calcutta Monthly, India Sporting Review and other journals. In 1861 he was instrumental in founding the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but ten portraits show the sitters with guns, pig sticking pikes or hunting trophies.

Provenance: J.A. Crawford, gift inscription from C. Palmer, Surbiton, June ?1857 or 1887 on title.

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