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Lot 282
Rajah Karam Singh of Patiala, after Emily Eden, from Portraits of the Princes and People of India J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,152 inc. premium
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Rajah Karam Singh of Patiala, after Emily Eden, from Portraits of the Princes and People of India
J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844
J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844
hand-coloured lithograph by Lowes Dickinson after Eden, trimmed from the original page and laid down on card
plate 376 x 265 mm.; card 450 x 360 mm.
plate 376 x 265 mm.; card 450 x 360 mm.
Footnotes
This image is Plate 6 from a rare coloured first edition, probably one of only a handful of copies published in this form, of Portraits of the Princes & People of India by the Honble. Miss Eden.
The accompanying letterpress to this print is as follows:
The RAJA of PUTTEEALLA is chief of the largest of the Sikh Principalities on the South Bank of the Sutlej, which owe allegiance to the British Government, and are under its protection. These Principalities were saved from subjection to Runjeet Singh, in the year 1809, through the interference of the British Government. Lord Minto was then Governor general, and Sir Charles Metcalfe was the Envoy deputed by him to restrain Runject Singh in his conquests south of the Sutlej. The revenues of the Raja of Putteealla are supposed to be from £300,000 to £400.000 a year.