Two portraits: the first of Krishna Raja, the newly-installed sovereign (Gurtur) of the Kingdom of Mysore after the defeat of Tipu Sultan in 1799; the second of his maternal grandfather Nandi Raja, almost certainly the original drawings for the illustrations in both published in A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar by Francis Buchanan
Lot 186
pencil on paper, one sheet watermarked Parsons 1807, identifying inscriptions, laid down on pasteboard