The Village of Jeewah Moocuddum, near to Rania, with William Fraser’s circle of village folk, by a master artist working for William Fraser, from The Fraser Album, India, Rania, Haryana, circa 1816

Commissioned by William Fraser, Delhi, circa 1816

William Fraser (1784-1835) and James Fraser (1783-1856)

By descent in the Fraser Family in Scotland, 1820-1980

Sotheby’s, London, Fine Oriental Manuscripts, Miniatures and Lacquer, 7 July 1980, lot 23

H. P. Kraus, New York

Acquired by Cary Welch from H. P. Kraus

S.C. Welch, India,  Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985, no.278, no.50, p.97

M. Archer and T. Falk, India Revealed: The art and adventures of James and William Fraser, 1801-35, London, 1989, no.73, p.100

W. Dalrymple and Y. Sharma (eds.), Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857, New Haven and London, 2012, no.44, pp.126-7

M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.42, pp.147-9

On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983/84

India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2012