Enrica Medugno
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Lot 297
Two lithograph illustrations of Lahore, from Original Sketches in the Punjaub, depicting the Tomb of Ranjit Singh, and the city viewed from the old racecourse London, Dickinson Bros., 1854(2)
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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Two lithograph illustrations of Lahore, from Original Sketches in the Punjaub, depicting the Tomb of Ranjit Singh, and the city viewed from the old racecourse
London, Dickinson Bros., 1854
London, Dickinson Bros., 1854
coloured lithographs, captions in lower borders
250 x 325 mm. and slightly smaller (sheet size)(2)
250 x 325 mm. and slightly smaller (sheet size)(2)
Footnotes
Original Sketches in the Punjaub was compiled from drawings by an anonymous female artist who accompanied her husband, an army officer, on his posting to Lahore in around 1851. Thirteen of the twenty views depicted Lahore. Her identity remained mysterious when they were published in London, and remains so. See F. S. Aijazuddin, Lahore: illustrated views of the 19th Century, 1991, pp. 7, and 54-58, nos. 18-20 (the view from the racecourse is no. 20).