Major Edward Molyneux, 1866-1913, a collection of watercolours depicting views in kashmir, twenty

Major Edward Molyneux, 1866-1913, a collection of watercolours depicting views in kashmir, twenty-one, two signed, one dated 1892 and one 1898, seventeen variously titled Kashmiri houses, Kashmir, The Frozen Lake Gangabal-Kashmir, Country Boats on the Jhelum Srinagar, Nanga Paxbat, Rampur Kashmir, Tribal Territotry N.W.F.P., Lalla Rookh's tomb at Hassan Abdal, Greyday in the Nullah-Kashmir, Roadside Kashmir, Sonamerg, Valley of the Kishengunga-Dumale, Sind Valley-Kashmir, Gagribal, Spring morning near Dal gate-Srinagar, Evening on the Dal-Srinagar and Sind Valley, all watercolour, one unframed, various sizes (24) Major E Molyneux was comissioned to illustrate Kashmir by Sir Francis Younghusband, published by Adam & Charles Black in 1909. The watercolours in this lot include studies for Approach to Srinagar, illus.no.2, p.2, Lalla Rookh's Tomb, Hassan Abdal, illus.no.50, p.162 and Evening on the Dal Lake, illus.no.57, p.210, To be sold with two sketchbooks by Molyneux, one titled Vignettes - On the March with No.1 Mountain Battery and a copy of Kashmir by Sir Francis Younghusband.