9781528714662 - The Durbar - Mortimer Menpes
9781528714662 - The Durbar - Mortimer Menpes
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The Durbar

Featuring 100 colour prints of Mortimer Menpes’s beautiful watercolour paintings with Dorothy’s transcribed anecdotes it provides an illustrated record of the commemoration in Delhi of the coronation of King Edward VII.

£32.99

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Author

Mortimer Menpes

Imprint

Read & Co. Travel

Categories

Art & Design

Art Forms

Arts & Entertainment

Asia

India & South Asia

Regional

Travel & Maps

ISBN

9781528714662

Formats Available

Pages

434

Publication Date

20 February 2020

Dimensions 7 × 10 in

The Durbar’, originally published in 1903, is one of Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes’s first collaborations. Featuring 100 colour prints of Mortimer Menpes’s beautiful watercolour paintings with Dorothy’s transcribed anecdotes it provides an illustrated record of the commemoration in Delhi of the coronation of King Edward VII. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855 – 1938), was an Australian-born British painter, author, and illustrator. This classic work is being republished now in a new colour edition and includes Flora Annie Steel’s Short story ‘At the Great Durbar’.

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