57 A group of 28 lithographs comprising 15 by Emily Eden (1797-1869), 7 by Captain Atkinson, and 3 by Liententant Mecham, and 3 others, comprising: A Young Native and A Little Mussulman Girl; Horse and Jewels of Runjeet Singh; Annan Mesee A Converted Hindoo and the Rajah of Nahun and His Two Sons; Portico of a Hindu Temple; The Raja of Putteealla on his State Elephant; Dost Muhamed Khan and part of his Family; A Zamindar or Farmer and a Puthan; Raja Heera Singh; Lord Auckland Receiving the Rajah of Nahun, Purtaub Singh; Cheetas sent by the King of Oude to accompany the Governor General; A Young Hill Raja; Servants with Dogs and Hawks belonging to the King of Oude; A Hindoo Fakir; Fakeer attached to the Suite of the Governor General in Camp; A Shootr-Suwar; The Raja Hindu Rao; Vihara Cave no. 7; No. 14, Interior of the Residency Billiard Room; No. 22 Interior of Alumbagh; No. 17 The Clock Tower Gateway; A Nephew of Dost Mahomed Shah on the celebrated Horse Kohinoor; Mahomed Umeen Shah with his Ministers and Attendants; Four Figures with a View of the Plain of Begram, the Reg Ruwan and part of the Kohistan; Cabul Afghan and Kuzzilbash Ladies; Jellalabad


Sirdar Mahomed Ukbar Khan; Perganeh near Istalef Huzzarehs Firing with Jusafels; A Dooranee Noble and His Attendant at the Palace Canadahar (28), mostly 46 x 35cm.


The lithographs by Emily Eden are from a copy of EMILY EDEN, Portraits of the Princes & Peoples of India, London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844.


The Hon. Emily Eden, the seventh daughter of William Eden, first baron Auckland, accompanied her brother, George, Lord Auckland (1784-1849) to India where he served as Governor-General from 1835-1842. A highly gifted amateur artist and writer, Eden recorded her observations of life in India during this period in the form of letters and an extensive collection of sketches. On her return to England in 1842, Eden arranged to have her images printed privately as a portfolio of 24 lithographs and the Portraits was published in 1844, issued in wrappers in four parts. Most copies were issued uncoloured, except for a few beautifully hand-coloured copies, of which the present work is one. In addition to the Portraits, Eden’s descriptions and recollections of her life in India were published in Up the Country. Letters written to her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India by the Hon. Emily Eden, 1866.


Eden’s fine portraits and textual descriptions in the Portraits record the Indian rulers, and often their families, with whom Lord Auckland met during his term of office as Governor-General. The first period of their stay in India was spent in Calcutta and from October 1837 to February 1840 Lord Auckland and his entourage toured through the Upper Provinces, meeting with Indian princely subjects. Amongst those encountered and portrayed by Eden during these tours were the Maharaja Sher-Singh, King of the Punjab, the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, The Raja of Nahun, the Raja of Patiala, and the Raja Hira Singh, son of the Prime Minister of the Punjab. Fanny Parks, travelling in India between 1822 and 1845, found Eden’s sketches from this period to be ‘most spirited and masterly.’ The richness and splendour of these Indian figures and their entourages are captured by Eden, particularly in the plates relating to the bejewelled horses from the Maharaja’s stable, and the elephants, dogs, hawks and hunting leopards sent to accompany Lord Auckland by the King of Oudh. Eden did not only confine her portraits to those of Indian princes or those of high castes. The twenty-eight images also include servants attached to Government House, members of their families, together with religioius devotees, Pathans, Tibetans and others £700-1000 + 27.6% BP*


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