A LOOSE FOLIO FROM A SKETCHES ALBUM BASED ON THE FRASER ARTIST'S WORK A PORTRAIT OF OZMAN GHUNEE KHAN India, 1835 - 40 Opaque pigments on European watermarked paper, the vertical composition portraying Ozman Ghunee, a Mearee Patan, nephew of Timoor Khan, wearing a white salwar kameez and loose pantaloons, a burgundy embroidered shawl wrapped around his shoulders, the face showing Central Asian features with elongated eyebrows and almond-shaped dark eyes, a golden earring hanging on the lobe, with golden pointy slippers, the verso with a pencil drawing of a merchant, the paper watermarked W. VENABLES & CO. below part of HEIC shield, numbered 3 in pencil at the bottom, 24.5cm x 16.5cm.  Provenance: from an album brought from Malerkotla with watermarked date of 1833 and the shield of the East India Company.  This portrait is a study after the Fraser Album painting of ‘Eight horse merchants’ in the collection of the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Archer & Falk, India Revealed – The Art and Adventures of James & William Fraser 1801-35, London, 1989, p. 111, no. 99). Other paintings from this album have a watermark 1833. Another portrait from this album is published in Losty and Mittal, Indian Paintings of the British Period in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, 2016, pp. 18-21, cat. 3.