European School, early 20th century
Lot 61

European School, early 20th century

The bedroom of Percy Brown, Calcutta

Closed22 May 2008

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European School, early 20th century
The bedroom of Percy Brown, Calcutta
signed indistinctly 'R... B...' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, watermark Strasburg Bend, on two joined sheets
12¼ x 13½ in. (31.1 x 34.3 cm.)

Specialist note

Percy Brown (1872-1955) was the author of Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750, Oxford, 1924. Brown's ground-breaking publication was the first systematic historical record of the Mughal school, completely unique in its genre. For more information on Brown see I. Stchoukine, La Peinture Indienne à l'Époque des Grands Moghols, Paris, 1929.