Category:Original Sketches in the Punjaub by a Lady (1854)

'possibly privately published' (Abbey loc. cit) collection of drawings of Lahore and Amritsar by a wife of an Officer serving with his regiment in India. 'No attempt has been made to draw pictures as they ought to be; the desire has been to convey to an English eye some notion of the bright, vivid colouring of Indian scenes' (preface). Abbey Travel, 483. Quote from preface: Artist aimed "to convey to an English eye some notion of the bright, vivid colouring of Indian scenes... the great heat... takes away colour from the atmosphere, and makes it almost white, leaving the houses, and gay clothing of the natives, all the brighter for the contrast".

Coloured plates in order: 1. Lahore, from the old Race Course. On this plain Runjeet Singh used to review his troops. 2. View of the Shesh Mahal or Palace of Glass. 3. A portion of Runjeet's Palace. 4. Tomb of Runjeet Singh, built on the place where his body was burnt with four wives & seven female slaves. 5. The Shah's Musjid & walls of Lahore. 6. Entrance to the Shah's Musjid, from the Huzooree Bagh. 7. Fragment of the Old Mogul Palace. 8. Entrance to the Vizier's Musjid. 9. Minarets of the Viziers Musjid. 10. Sonowlee Musjid or Golden Temple. 11. A Street in the City. 12. Biram Singh's Tomb. 13. Ruin of a Gateway on the road to Mooltan. 14. Anarkullie, from the Mooltan Road. 15. The Fort of Govindghur, near Umritsir. 16. Entrance to the Holy Temple at Umritsir, from the Gate of the Kutwallee. 17. The Holy Temple. 18. The Akalee Temple. 19. The Kutwalee from the borders of the Tank. 20. A Sikh Temple in honour of Baba Attull Raee, younger son of Hur Govind, 6th in descent of the Seikh Gooroos.

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