Tinted lithograph with original hand colour and descriptive text of principal buildings shown ' Shish Mahab or Palace of Glass', 'Runjeet Singh's Tomb', and 'Shah's Masjid'. Lithographed by Dickinson Brothers. Approx. 355 x 270mm. (14 x 11ins).

From Original Sketches in the Punjaub, by a Lady.

One plate from an uncommon collection of views of the Punjab, more particularly Lahore and Amritsar which the great collector Abbey believed were 'possibly privately published'.

The artist is anonymous, identified only as 'the wife of an Officer in the Queen's Service now with his regiment in India'.

Abbey Travel II 483 no.1. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.