DOROTHY NEWSOME (CIRCA 1900-1980) KASHMIR. Circa 1925. 39 1/4x24 3/4 inches, 99 3/4x63 cm. G. Claridge & Co. Ltd., Bombay. Condition A- / A: minor creases and abrasions at edges; minor creases and restoration in image. "In the late 1920s [Dorothy Newsome and Kathleen Irene Nixon] were commissioned by the Oxford University Press to visit India and execute a series of drawings . . . while there the Indian State Railways commissioned both women to design 34 colour posters of animals and birds" (The Dictionary of British Women Artists p. 197).
