Egron Selif Lundgren (1815-1875) The Fort at Alumbagh, near Lucknow, circa 1858-59 pen and ink and watercolour on paper, laid down on card 110 x 248 mm. Footnotes: Provenance Formerly at Wyfold Court, near Reading, UK, according to the countersigned stamp of Karl Asplund at Bukawskis Konsthandel. Exhibited Riksforbundets for Bildande Konst (The National Federation for Fine Arts), Sweden, no date, no. 28 (printed and typewritten label on backboard). Literature Karl Asplund, Egron Lundgren, Part II, p. 188, no. 240C (according to a printed label on the backboard). Egron Selif Lundgren (1815-1875) was a Swedish traveller, artist and writer, who went to India to report on the Mutiny, or uprising, of 1857-58. He accompanied Lord Clyde in the campaign in Oudh, including the Relief of Lucknow. His work found much favour with the Royal Family: he was commissioned by Queen Victoria to record the wedding of the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in January 1858, and sketches from his stay at Balmoral in September 1859 remain in the Royal Collection at Windsor. For further information see S. Nilsson and N. Gupta, Egron Lundgren and India, Malmoe, 1992. For a work on paper by Lundgren, depicting two Sikh and three Gurkha soldiers, see the sale in these rooms, Islamic and Indian Art Online Sale, 20th-28th October 2022, lot 231. See also lot 235 in the current sale, a Swedish illustrated text on Lundgren in India. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing