India – Salim Shah important company school watercolour showing the tomb of Salim Shah in India on paper a little browning to paper and some chipping to edges but not affecting the image. Approx 120x80mm. Signed in Arabic or Farsi by the artist in the bottom right hand corner. Originally this was from the Spencer Churchill collection but it has been in a private collection in the USA for some years. The unfinished tomb of Salim Shah is about 2km north west of Sasaram in Bihar. In the late 15th c this area was controlled by the Sur Dynasty an Afghan tribe and a branch of the Lodi Dynasty. They constructed unique mausoleums around Sasaram including that of Salim Shah which was intended to float on water like the tomb of his father Sher Shah. The tomb was built on a low basement and would have been very large is construction had not been abandoned during the course of its construction.