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[INDIA]
[Monuments of India - Watercolour Album]
An excellent album of watercolour and pen and ink hand-coloured miniatures was collected by Elisabeth Douno (B. Lady Hay, 1820-1904, Duchess of Wellington) while visiting architectural highlights in India for ten years before India came under British rule in 1858. It includes views of Taj Mehal, Fort of Lahore... Each monument has been named by hand with ink in front of or on the back of each illustration.
- Published
- n.p., [Paris] n.d., circa 1848.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- n.p., [Paris] n.d., circa 1848.
- Ref
- 949
1 vol in-8° oblong of 24 loosely inserted watercolour miniatures of famous Indian architectural highlights. In original full purple morocco with attractive gilt decorations to boards and spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles also. Provenance: Lady Hay (MS signature and date 1848 on front page); Bookplate: library of "Leonard Lionel Bloomfield, 1908" (engraved bookplate on recto of front flyleaf). Coloured plates in order: 1. View of the Taj Mehal (sic) from the Cypress Grove. 2. View of the Taj Mehal from the River Jumna. 3. Jai Mahat from the Cypress Grove. 4. Interior of the Taj Mehal, Agra. 5. Taj Mehal, Agra. 6. Musselman tomb at Futtehpore near Agra. 7. Gateway (?) at the tombs of Secumatra near Agra. 8. Pearl Mosque, Fort Agra. 9. A portion of the screen.... [that] surrounds the tombs in the Taj. 10. Fort of Lahore. 11. The tombstone of the Emperor Shah Jehan. 12. The tombstone over Noor Mehal - the light of the Harem - the favourite wife of Shah Jehan. 13. The Rootab Minaret near Delhi. 14. Fort of Lahore (as per image #10). 15. A tomb in Western India on the plan of the Taj. 16. View of the Fort of Agra from the River Jumna. 17. The Martiniere at Lucknow. 18. The Palace in the Fort, Agra. 19. Grand Gateway of the Fort at Agra. 20. Tombstone of Secundra near Agra. 21. View of the Taj from the North. 22. Gateway to the tombstone of the ???? 23. The tomb of ??? Dulah Nuzeer or Prince ??? Agra, banks of the River Jumna. 24. [no caption]
