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Victoria
By Saloni Mathur
catalogue for a London exhibition in 2003 on Austrian
painter RUDOLF SWOBODA who was sent to India by
Queen Victoria expressly to paint portraits of Indians.
pp. 32 with 27 portraits in colour, notes and list of
exhibits
Softcover/ 8.5 x 6 inches
Ex-Library. Title page clean
HILDA MAY GORDON(1874-1972), a colourist abroad
Her travels around the world in the 1920s, illustrated
by her own paintings, and based largely upon her
unpublished journals
By PATRICK CONNER
London: Martyn Gregory
No date [c. 1990s]
A 62-page gallerycatalogue covering the artist's travels
in India, Kashmir, Western Tibet, Burma and elsewhere
in Asia
Softcover/ size 8 x 6 inches
CHARLES D'OYLY'S CALCUTTA, EARLY 19th CENTURY
Oblong quarto [12 x 9 inches] in stiff cards.
38 pages with 28 full-page colour reproductions on
glazed art paper [including the one on cover] from
VIEWS OF CALCUTTA AND ITS ENVIRONS [1848]
And 3 b&w full-page lithographs from BEHAR
LITHOGRAPHIC SCRAP BOOK [1829]
All by Sir Charles D'Oyly [1781-1845],a civil servant with
East India Company and a pupil of Chinnery.
The lovely book also has a portrait of Sir Charles D'Oyly
and a 4-page essay titled VIEWS OF CALCUTTA
AND ITS ENVIRONS: CHARLES D'OYLY, EUROPEAN
ENGRAVER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
HINDOOSTAN, which puts the artist in the context of
his times.
Printed and published in Calcutta in 2011 to coincide
with an exhibition, this is a 2014 reprint.
OIL PAINTINGS BY SIR CHARLES D'OYLY, 7TH
BARONET 1781-1845
By MAURICE SHELLIM
An extremely rare and virtually unknown catalogue
issued by a London gallery in 1989
pp. 32
Very few copies were printed.
This is Shellim's signed presentation copy to British
scholar Patricia Kattenhorn
There is a 1-page foreword byGiles Eyre, 2-page
introduction by Maurice Shellim with chronology and a
list of 26 oils by D'Oyly at the end.
Two COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS on front and back of
cover and 26 b&w illustrations inside, most of them
full-page.
Lovely softcover/ 10.5x 8.5 inches
AN ARTIST ON THE MARCH - Paintings of India,
Abyssinia and Kashmir by COLONEL CORNELIUS
FRANCIS JAMES, Prince of Wales' Own Bombay
Grenadiers, 1838-1889
A RARE, lovely catalogue issued in UK in 1989,
consisting of oil paintings and watercolours.
This catalogue was published by Col. James's great
grandchildren from Guernsey, Channel Islands
pp. 48
19 portraits of Indians [servants, ascetics, etc.], 13
watercolours of Elephanta, Karli, Satara, Pushkar, Ajmer,
Bolan Pass etc., 8 watercolours of a Kashmir made
during holiday in 1881 and 23 paintings of Abyssinia.
Softcover / 8 x 8.5 inches
JOHN GRIFFITHS (1837-1918) - The Rediscovery of an
important artist working in Victorian Bombay
12-page catalogueof an exhibition held in London in
May-June 1980
2 colour illustrations on cover, 4 b&w illustrations inside
1-page essay by William Gaunt
2-page essay by G. E. [Giles Eyre]
26 items, biographical sources
Stapled softcover / 10 x 7.5 inches
DRAWINGS FROM SOUTH INDIA by Bevis Sale
Full-page caricatures by American visitor to India
Published June 1972 in an edition of 150 copies of
which this is No. 122 [according to back cover]
MR.WILLIAM SIMPSON OF THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS - PIONEER WAR ARTIST 1823-1899
Catalogue issued in UK in 1987
pp. 16 [including covers] / Large size 12 x 9 inches
Essay by Paul Theroux
Covers Simpson's entire career but the focus is largely
on India and only some partsare on Sebastapol,
Abyssinia etc.
Of the 10 colour illustrations, 5 are on India including
the cover. There are 12 b&w illustrations [2 on India] in
text including a photograph of Simpson. 83 works are
described andthere are notes and a bibliography.
WILLIAM SIMPSON'S AFGHANISTAN - Travels of
a Special Artist and Antiquarian During the Second
Afghan War, 1878-1879
Edited by Peter Harrington
Published by Helion and Co., Solihull, UK/ 2016
pp. 289
Heavily illustrated, based on Simpson's diary
Hardcover / 10 x 7 inches
ANGLO-INDIA - Fine and decorative arts made for the
British in India 1800-1870
Kentshire Galleries catalogue issued in 1985
85 items described
pp. 22
softcover / 10 x 7 inches
VANISHING INDIA - The true India which has escaped
occidental influence is depicted by HUBERT STOWITTS
in a series of ethnographic paintings executed in fresco
secco, from life
16-page essay in a complete issue of U.S. journal
NATURAL HISTORY forSeptember-October 1931.
The essay is by H. D. [Hawthorne Daniel, Editor of the
journal]
The essay has 28 b&w reproductions of Stowitts'
paintings + there is a colour painting on the journal's
cover. Total 29 images.
Size 10 x 7 inches
ANAWAB'S DREAM / Un reve de Nabab
Text in English and French
A rare 12-page exhibition catalogue issued in France
in 1999, to exhibit a silver bed ordered by the Nawab
of Bahawalpur [now in Pakistan] in 1882 froma French
firm. The 290 kg silverbed had four life-size nude
women - Parisian. Flemish, Greek and Italian - which
could move their hands holding fly whisks and eyes
thanks to a mechanical contraption under the bed and
had a music box that played for30 minutes.
The catalogue gives complete details about the history
of the bed, how it was ordered, how built and what
happened to it.
It also carries the image of the Nawab, a b&w
photograph of the bed when it was built, a watercolour
of thesame, the musical contraption inside the bed and
some other related pix.
Softcover / 12 x 6 inches
ALBERT BESNARD AUX INDES
Catalogue of a 2004 exhibition held at a Paris gallery
French artist Albert Besnard [1849-1934] visited Indiain
1910-11
Text in French
30-page stapled softcover / 10.5 x 8 inches
THE TIGER AND THE THISTLE - Tipu Sultan and the
Scots in India, 1760-1800
By ANNE BUDDLE with Pauline Rohatgi and Iain
Gordon Brown
Issued in UK to coincide withan exhibition in 1999 to
mark bicentenary of the finall battle of Seringapatam.
148 exhibits listed and most illustrated in colour
The memorabilia includes mostly Paintings and Prints
and a few Arms, Busts, Ivory objects, textiles, jewellery
etc
Fine large softcover/ 12 x 9.5inches
This lovely catalogue also has 5 scholarly essays:
THE TIGER AND THE THISTLE
FROM PENCIL TO PANORAMA - TIPU IN PICTORIAL
PERSPECTIVE
THE SCOTS IN INDIA
MYTHS, MELODRAMA AND THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY
GRIFFINS, NABOBS AND A SEASONING OF CURRY
POWDER - WALTER SCOTT AND THE INDIAN
THEME IN LIFE AND LITERATURE
Rs 2,50,000-Rs 3,00,000
$3,850-$4,620