(INDIAN MINIATURES) Company School Album of exquisitely draw

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Sale 2689 - Lot 208

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(INDIAN MINIATURES.) Company School. Album of exquisitely-drawn Patna Kalam character and costume portraits. 48 expressively-detailed full-length ink and gouache portraits of primarily working-class Indian men and women touched with gum arabic on "Bath Superfine" embossed paper. 8vo, 7x4¾ inches, contemporary gilt red calf, lightly worn; occasional minor stains but overall lovely. India, mid-nineteenth century

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