LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Size Notes:

leaf: 30.8 by 19.6cm.

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed in narrow lower margin in pencil in Persian characters "shabihi Daku jat Mussumlam quwm sahu `umr yek sadu hasht saleh sakin Berar", inscription on inside of detached original cover paper in pencil in William Fraser's hand "Dakoo a Mussulman Jath of Jumalpore 108 yrs old drawn in 1816", inscription on outside of original cover paper in Persian characters in black ink "nmbr bist-o-yek 21" and in pencil in William Fraser's hand "No 21"; with a further contemporary cover paper inscribed in brown ink in E.S. Fraser's hand "No.19 21 of Persian list , The Portrait of Dako, a mussulmann Jath aged 108 years, Born at Jumalpore in Hurreanah"

Literature:

Archer and Falk 1989, no.109, p.118 (illustrated in colour); Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1980, lot 143

Provenance:

In the Collection of William 1784-1835 and James Fraser 1783-1856 ; By direct descent to Malcolm R. Fraser Esq