Scenery costumes and architecture cheiftly on the western side of India

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“Captain Robert Melville Grindlay (1786-1877), founder of the Grindlays Bank and a self-taught artist, arrived in India in 1803. Only 17 years old at the time, he worked with the East India Company’s military service and served with the 7th Bombay Native Infantry from 1804 to 1820. During these years, he travelled widely across the country, and made numerous drawings and sketches on the landscapes and life around him, including views of Bombay, Gujarat and Ellora.

This book comprises 36 aquatints and hand-coloured plates drawn by Grindlay, William Westall and William Daniell RA, among others (engraved by R G Reeves, Theodore Fielding and more). Grindlay went on to found Leslie & Grindlay, an agency house, in 1828. Initially, the agency helped secure travel arrangements of its clientele, to India and back, procuring sea passages, clearing and shipping baggage. The services graduated to banking operations…[and] by 1852 – the year Grindlay retired the firm had become the most distinguished bankers and agents to the civil and military officials of the business community and the British army in India.”