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A group of 14 hand-coloured lithographs, including the frontispiece, from Emily Eden's Portraits of the People and Princes of India
J. Dickinson & Son, London, 184414 hand-coloured lithographs (from the original 28), in card mounts
cards 510 x 358 mm.; mounts 575 x 448 mm.(14)FootnotesThe list of plates is as follows (following the order of the original):
The son of the Nawab of Banda (frontispiece).
Hindoo Fakeer.
The Rajah of Patiala.
Rajah Hindoo Rao.
A young hill Rajah, from the area around Simla.
Falconers, servants of the King of Oudh.
Hunting leopards of the King of Oudh with attendants.
Arab servants of Sir Alexander Burnes.
A fakeer at an encampment.
A Hindoo student at Calcutta and a girl, the daughter of a servant (two plates on one card).
A Shootr-Suwar, a camel despatch rider.
Tibetan tartars, traders, sketched at Simla.
A Zemindar and a Pathan.
Lord Auckland receiving the Rajah of Nahun in Durbar.
Emily Eden (1797-1869) accompanied her brother, Lord Auckland, to India in 1836 when he was Governor-General. They stayed in Calcutta at first, but then between October 1837 and February 1840 toured through Oudh and the hill regions. They visited (along with their sister, Fanny) the court of Ranjit Singh in 1838 at what was perhaps its high point, though it was soon to fall into internecine and murderous faction fighting. Eden recorded her impression both in writing, in an extensive collection of letters, and in sketches, which on her return to England in 1842 she worked up and then had printed privately as a set of 24 lithographs. The Portraits was published in 1844 in four parts in wrappers. Most were in monochrome except for a few beautifully hand-coloured copies, of which the present lot is one. Her written accounts were also published as Up the Country: Letters written to her sister from the Upper Provinces of India by the Hon. Emily Eden, 1866.