An album of fifty paintings circa 1870s-1890s, Northern India, possibly

including Sikh rulers' portraits of Maharanee Jind Kaur, Maharajah Sher Singh and Maharajah Runjeet Singh, tradespeople, sepoys, entertainers, and religious figures, all with English identifying inscriptions in pen in lower margins, twenty-five leaves watermarked, margin rules in gold, red and blue, opaque pigments on wove paper heightened with gold, in a contemporary binding, English identifying inscriptions in pen in lower margins, margin rules in gold, red and blue, opaque pigments on wove paper heightened with gold, in a contemporary binding, image 15 x 26.5cm; album 20 x 32cm, Purchased in Portobello Road Market, London, circa 1999. Comprising in order:, A dhobee and his wife; Maharani Jind Kaur; A nauch girl and her musicians; A man wrestling with a bear; Two carpenters at work; A sepoy drummer and a native rifleman; Two sepoys of the native infantry; A woman churning butter; with a cow and calf; Maharajah Runjeet Singh and Maharajah Sher Singh; A persian(?) wheel for saving water; Two butchers dressing a goat; Rangrez (cloth dyeing) Two Chuniyas; A snake charmer and his attendant; A moochee and his wife making shoes; A watercarrier with an ox; Two huntsmen and their greyhounds; Hakeem attending a sick man; An acrobat and a drummer; A distiller; An oil presser; A water dispenser; Two fakirs; An archer and carrier; Two armourers; An acrobat and a drummer; Two nobles seated; Coppersmiths at work; An Akali and his wife; Women carrying produce; An Akali and his wife and child; A man and his wife with a loaded mule; Two musical fakirs; Two fakirs cutting ritual; A bunia cotton dealer; A vegetable seller; A sonar and goldsmith; Weavers; Cotton carders; Furniture Makers; Wazir Akbar Khan and Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul; Fakirs with rattles; Men spinning cotton; A barber; An entertainer with monkeys and goat; Toolaha couple; Couple preparing dabka(?); A woman serving fruit; An entertainer; A woman spinning cotton. For similar albums, almost all with a standard of sixty paintings, see: Royal Ontario Museum, accession number 2006.71.1.52; Bonhams: ‘Islamic and Indian Art Online’ 12 June 2025, lot 263; 'Islamic and Indian Art', 30 April 2019, lot 212; 26 October 2020, lot 268; 30 March 2021, lot 124; 25 October 2021, lot 334 and ‘India in Art’, 7 June 2023, lot 54. Condition Report, Condition Report, This lot does not have a condition report, if you would like further information, please click the 'Request A Condition Report’ button below. Request A Condition Report, Request A Condition Report

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