A group of 5 Indian preparatory drawings, 

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A group of 5 Indian preparatory drawings, Kangra school, North India, 18th century, in a brown envelope inscribed Laurence Binyon at the British Museum, with Burlington Magazine ink stamp, comprising an unfinished watercolour of two ladies playing a board game, ink and gouache on paper heightened with gold, with attendants sketched out behind and below, a landscape in the distance, within blue border, no 13 inscribed in pencil to reverse, 19 x 15.6cm.; a preparatory drawing of Krishna sheltering Radha from an oncoming storm, red and blue ink on paper, within the sketched outline of an oval, no 23 inscribed in pencil to reverse, 25 x 19.4cm.; a preparatory drawing of a visitor approaching a sage in a rocky and treed landscape, red ink on paper, no 22 inscribed in pencil to reverse, 21.1 x 19.5cm.; a ruler and a prince in conversation, with attendants either side, within a columned hall, pairs of soldiers fighting with swords below, red ink on paper, black ink surround, no 28 inscribed in pencil to reverse, 24 x 29.8cm.; a preparatory drawing of Kartikeya on his peacock mount holding a spear, inscribed above, red ink on paper, no 20 inscribed in pencil to reverse, 15.6 x 11.2cm. (5) Provenance: From the collection of Robert Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) and thence by descent Robert Laurence Binyon, (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist, and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's school and at Trinity College where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. Binyon began his career at the museum in the Department of Printed Books writing catalogues for the museum and art monographs for himself. In 1895, his first book, Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century, was published. In that same year, Binyon moved into the museum's Department of Prints and Drawings, under Campbell Dodgsen and in 1909, Binyon became its Assistant Keeper. In 1913, he was made the Keeper of the new Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings. Around then, he played a crucial role in the formation of Modernism in London by introducing young Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington to East Asian visual art and literature. Many of Binyon's books produced at the museum were influenced by his own sensibilities as a poet although some were works of plain scholarship, such as his four-volume catalogue of all of the museum's English drawings and his seminal catalogue of Chinese and Japanese prints. Binyon's many and varied publications include Painting in the Far East (1908); Japanese Art (1909); Flight of the Dragon (1911); The Court Painters of the Grand Moguls (1921); Japanese Colour Prints (1923); The Poems of Nizami (1928) (Translation); Persian Miniature Painting (1933); The Spirit of Man in Asian Art (1936); Akbar (1932)

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