Tippoo Sultan's soldiers; and a companion watercolor of the same subject

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Calcutta School, late 18th century
Tippoo Sultan's soldiers; and a companion watercolor of the same subject
each watercolor and pencil on paper
each 16¾ x 14 3/8 in. (42.5 x XX cm.) (2)

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Bought from Andrew Edmunds, London, in 1996.

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拍品专文

The compositions in the present lot are inspired by Robert Home's drawings of Tippoo Sultan's soldiers, which he drew in 1791 at the end of the Third Mysore War. The present drawings were presumably done by Calcutta artists after Home got to Calcutta in 1795.

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