A group of devotees and musicians making offerings at a riverside shrine Murshidabad, late 18th/early 19th Century watercolour on watermarked paper 350 x 525 mm. Footnotes: Provenance General Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt. (1757-1849), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1811-13, & Maria, Lady Nugent. Thence by descent via the Nugents to the current owners. The style of this lot and the preceding (176) are similar to those of the Parlby Album, compiled by the wife or daughter of Colonel James Parlby, an East India Company engineer. They were all painted at Murshidabad between 1795 and 1803. See J. P. Losty, Indian Life and People in the 19th Century: Company Paintings in the Tapi Collection, Delhi 2019, pp. 25-50; and Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 1st May 2019, lots 118-121. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com