India – Maharajah Sher Singh

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India – Maharajah Sher Singh

India – Maharajah Sher Singh. Rare tinted lithograph by L. Dickinson Published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844. Approx. 361 x 511mm. (14 x 20ins). From Portraits of the Princes & Peoples of India. Showing Maharajah Sher Singh, son of Ranjit Singh, sketched by Emily Eden. The Hon. Emily Eden, a skilled water-colourist, accompanied her brother, Lord Auckland to the Sikh Court of Ranjit Singh when he was Governor General from 1835-1842. Her letters, later published in Up the Country, reflect her acerbic wit and keen observation of her surroundings.

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