Grand Panorama of the Red Fort Delhi, which Forge and Lynch sold for a price in the region of $50,000.
Buyers included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which bought an Ottoman album page with a miniature painting of nightingales in a rose tree signed Abdulla Bukhari, and the Princeton Art Museum, which chose a large architectural view of the Burland Darwaza gate at Fatehpur Sikri, formerly in the collections of the Marquess of Bute.
Among the dealership’s sales to private buyers was a Grand Panorama of the Red Fort Delhi, measuring more than 8ft (2.44m) long.
It is of a type commissioned by British patrons in India during the early 19th century, though those picturing Delhi are rarer than those of the fort at Agra. Painted on English paper, watermarked and dated 1824, it was snapped up by an Asian collector for a price in the region of $50,000.
