William Fraser’s Assembly of Village Elders with his Munshi and Diwan, by a Master Artist working for William Fraser, from The Fraser Album, India, Delhi or 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 4

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

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

Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company, The Wallace Collection, London, 2019-20

S.C. Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985, no.49, pp.95-96

M. Archer and T. Falk, India Revealed: The art and adventures of James and William Fraser, 1801-35, London, 1989, no.5, p.15

W. Dalrymple and Y. Sharma (eds.), Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857, New Haven and London, 2012, no.41, pp.120-1

M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.41, pp.142-5

K. Fraser, For the Love of a Highland Home, The Fraser brother’s Indian quest, St Kilda, 2016, pl.XVII

W. Dalrymple (ed.), Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company, London, 2019, no.104, p.167