CLARKE C. Stanley.

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CLARKE C. Stanley.
INDIAN DRAWINGS. Thirty Mogul paintings of the Scholl of Jahangir (17tn Century) & four panels of calligraphy in the Wantage Bequest. London, Victoria and Albert Museum portfolios, (1922). In-folio pleine toile éditeur, couverture conservée ; 4 pp. avec 24 planches en héliogravure. The late Lady Wantage has laid the Nation under a lasting debt of gratitude by her bequest of this remarkable series of Mogul paintings. Their importance lies not only In their outstanding merit as examples of Indian Art. They are also of inestimable value to the student and designer, in consequence of the rich store of suggestions contained in the exquisite floral borders with which many of the paintings and panels of calligraphy are surrounded. The drawings comprised in the bequest where purchased in a London sale-room in 1867-8 and were presented by baron Overstone to his daughter Harriet Lindsay, afterwards lady Wantage. They were originally in the Imperial Collection at Delhi, whence such treasures of art as remained after the looting by Nadir Shah of Persia in 1739, were scattered fare and wide after the mutiny in 1857. No informations Is available as to the circumstances in which they were brought to his country. The Collection was exhibited on loan in the Indian Section from 1916 to 1918, and passed to the Nation by bequest upon the death of lady Wantage in 1920.
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