| Description | Painted sketch of marble inlay from the Taj Mahal (Indian Mahometan); Watercolour, pencil, tracing paper; “From the Taj Mahal – (?spelling) (Indian Mahometan) / Say 14 Century” ;
“15th June 1939. / This tracing was made from a piece of marble that lay / in the office of John Norton 24 Old Bond Street. / It was understood that the marble had been given / to Mr Norton by the Maharajah Duleep Singh. / I was in the office from 1883 to 1885.” ;
“On the 19th May last, at the Tate gallery, / in the Room where Alfred Stevens’s work was / being exhibited, I saw some marble inlay / exactly similar to the piece drawn above, used in the / great Chimney piece by Stevens, for Dorchester / House, now demolished. / W.K” |