Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 298
A hand-coloured woodcut print depicting the city of Lahore from the north, with Maharajah Ranjit Singh riding with an escort in the foreground Punjab, Lahore or Amritsar, circa 1870
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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A hand-coloured woodcut print depicting the city of Lahore from the north, with Maharajah Ranjit Singh riding with an escort in the foreground
Punjab, Lahore or Amritsar, circa 1870
Punjab, Lahore or Amritsar, circa 1870
coloured woodcut on paper laid on silk, title at top North View of the City of Lahore, black margin rules, inscribed on the reverse Amritsar Native Drawings
220 x 503 mm.
220 x 503 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams, India and Beyond in Books and Photography, 26th October 2007, lot 197.
For a very similar woodcut, with the same title but with some of the buildings identified, and which originally belonged to J. Lockwood Kipling (founder of the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore, and father of Rudyard), see F. S. Aijazuddin, Lahore: illustrated views of the 19th Century, 1991, pp. 84-85, no. 39.
This is one of three known compositions of the north view of Lahore which were depicted in woodblock prints. A second composition (with minor figural variations and captions to some of the buildings) is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (IM.2:87-1917) and the Wellcome Collection, while a third (featuring a large group of riders on horses and an elephant) was sold at Christie's, Travel and Natural History, 22nd September 2005, lot 157.