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A SWEDISH ARTIST IN INDIA DURING
1857 WAR: 2 BOOKS
MED EGRON LUNDGREN I INDIEN - Ett Urval Av
Konstnarens Akvareller Och Techningar 1858-1859
[WITH EGRON LUNDGREN IN INDIA - A SELECTION
HIS WATERCOLOURS AND SKETCHES 1858-1859]
By KARL ASPLUND
TEXT IN SWEDISH
Published in Stockholm in 1931 in a LIMITED EDITION
of 500. This is No. 17.
pp. 37 + 80 plates / also, there are 21 illustrations in the
text and 1 on title page
Of the 80 plates, 8 are colour plates tipped-in with glue
at top corners on one side of the page only.
Of the remaining 72 B&W plates majority are full-page
and some have 2 images to a page, all printed on one
side of the page only.
14 images relate to Sikhs - soldiers, horsemen, children
etc. Of these 14 images 2 are colour tipped-in plates, 10
are full-page b&w and 2 are in the text.
Large fine hardback measuring 13 x 9.5 inches
The plates cover Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad,
Benares and Calcutta, showing people, children, women,
soldiers, army on the march, elephants and camels,
nautch girls, musicians, prisoners, king of Oudh and his
queen, landscape of the countryside and much more
Lundgren came to India around the Mutiny of 1857 and
for some time also accompanied Times correspondent
W H Russell in Lucknow and elsewhere. Russell's 'My
Diary in India', published in 1858, also has engravings
based on Lundgren's works.
THE PAINTER'S EYE - EGRON LUNDGREN AND INDIA
By STEN NILSSON and NARAYANI GUPTA
STOCKHOLM: National museum
1992
pp. 158 with bibliography andb & w and colour
illustrations
Hardback / 10.5 x 8.5 inches
Rs 1,20,000-Rs 1,40,000
$1,850-$2,155