By IANS |New Delhi |Published: June 28, 2018 1:49:43 pm
British India’s travel archives at Sotheby’s online auction
Art auctioneer Sothebys is hosting an online auction from June 18 to June 28 wherein they're auctioning archived books and manuscripts revealing a rarely-seen history of India. The collection includes maps and etchings among other things.
Archived books and manuscripts revealing a rarely-seen history of India are on sale in the ‘Fine Books And Manuscripts Including Americana’ online auction hosted by International art auctioneer Sothebys from June 18 to 28. Sketchbooks, photography books, manuscript accounts, watercolour paintings, panoramas, etchings, aquatints, maps and diaries are some of the archives on auction. Most of them chronicle the hunting and traveling expeditions of British army officers and civil servants. The locations range from Kolkata and Darbhanga to Kashmir, even Burma and beyond. A series of original watercolours painted by Colonel George Noble Cave, who was an officer with the Bengal Staff Corps from 1849, is up for grabs.
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