- 1020
INDIAN SCROLL
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- An Illustrated Scroll depicting a Muharram Procession. India, Deccan, Hyderabad or Arcot, circa 1840
- ink, paper,
Gouache on paper laid down on cloth with paper margins (8 x 224 in.; 203 by 5690 mm), with a bespoke cloth-covered box with 2 bookplates and label from the Fogg Art Museum, pencil inscription "Sotheby’s 1959"; some thin tears along the external edges and some minor stains, crease lines where folded and light creases, colors overall bright.
Literature
S. C. Welch, Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, New York, 1978, pp.154–5, no.69 (exhibited: Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, The American Federation of Arts, New York, March 1978 - February 1979)