Lot Essay
The pencil inscriptions on the reverse suggest Sultan Shahi tomb and Akbar’s tomb at Sikandra as possible identifications but it has not been possible to firmly identify this mausoleum.
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COMPANY SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Details
A VIEW OF A MAUSOLEUM
COMPANY SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Pencil and wash on paper, with a garden and trees in the foreground, within narrow black border, faint pencil inscriptions on the reverse, mounted
Painting 11 ¾ x 16 ½in. (29.7 x 42cm.); Folio 12 5/8 x 17 ¼in. (32 x 44cm.)
COMPANY SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Pencil and wash on paper, with a garden and trees in the foreground, within narrow black border, faint pencil inscriptions on the reverse, mounted
Painting 11 ¾ x 16 ½in. (29.7 x 42cm.); Folio 12 5/8 x 17 ¼in. (32 x 44cm.)
Provenance
Property of the Hon. Clive and Anne Gibson
Sotheby's, London, 8 June 2000, lot 48
Sotheby's, London, 8 June 2000, lot 48
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