India.- Boyd (Julius Middleton, 1837-1919) Temples and cenotaphs near Poona; Gateway at Sanchi Tope, two works related to the preparatory drawings in the 'Sketches of India' album held in the British Library, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white, over traces of graphite, on wove paper, signed lower right and lower left respectively, each c. 510 x 350 mm., under glass, minor browning and surface dirt, [1880s]

⁂ Julius Middleton Boyd was an English artist and East India Company Officer who was stationed in India during the latter half of the 19th century. The two works in the present lot are highly finished scenes based on preparatory drawings found in an album of studies, now held in the British Library (see: shelf mark no. WD3407), which the artist possibly finished in the 1880s; the two watercolours relate to f.14 and f.30 in the album. The album included illustrations of landscapes and monuments from Bombay and Western India, Rajasthan and Central India.