Lot 190
India.- Fraser (James Baillie) [Views of Calcutta and its environs, from drawings Executed by James B. Fraser, Esq. From Sketches made on the Spot], aquatints, [c.1824] (20)
Hammer Price: £13,000
Description
India.- Fraser (James Baillie) [Views of Calcutta and its environs, from drawings Executed by James B. Fraser, Esq. From Sketches made on the Spot], 20 plates only (of 24), loose without text, etchings and aquatints with full original hand-colouring, on various thick wove papers, each platemark approx. 365 x 500 mm (14 3/8 x 19 3/4 in), all with good margins, some full margins, minor surface dirt, without covers, all unframed, Rodwell and Martin, Smith, Elder, and Co., [circa 1824-1826] (20)
Provenance:
From the Collection of the Late W.G. and Mildred Archer; thence by descent
⁂ Near complete collection of the plates from what is often considered the finest and most famous Anglo-Indian colour-plate book published in the late-Georgian period.
Description
India.- Fraser (James Baillie) [Views of Calcutta and its environs, from drawings Executed by James B. Fraser, Esq. From Sketches made on the Spot], 20 plates only (of 24), loose without text, etchings and aquatints with full original hand-colouring, on various thick wove papers, each platemark approx. 365 x 500 mm (14 3/8 x 19 3/4 in), all with good margins, some full margins, minor surface dirt, without covers, all unframed, Rodwell and Martin, Smith, Elder, and Co., [circa 1824-1826] (20)
Provenance:
From the Collection of the Late W.G. and Mildred Archer; thence by descent
⁂ Near complete collection of the plates from what is often considered the finest and most famous Anglo-Indian colour-plate book published in the late-Georgian period.