, 10 portraits, each in watercolour and bodycolour on separate sheet of wove paper, contemporary manuscript captions in brown ink to rectos, contemporary pencilled captions to versos, all trimmed to various shapes and mounted to versos of two card mounts with oval apertures for the portraits and lozenge apertures for the captions, three portraits ('Nussir-ood-Din Hyder', 'Amjud Ali Shah' and 'Ex-King Wajid Ali Shah') sometime torn and reassembled (the damage visible on versos only), spotting to mounts (affecting two portraits only: Amjud Ali Shah' and 'Mahomed Ali Shah'), mount apertures 10.2 x 7.7 cmQty: (2)NOTESThe only nawabs not depicted are the short-reigned Wazir Ali Khan (r.1797-8), Begum Hazrat Mahal (r.1856-7) and Birjis Qadr (r.1857-8). Wajid Ali Shah (r.1847-1856), the last nawab before the Mutiny, is described in his caption as 'Ex-King', suggesting that these fine portraits were produced during his lifetime; he died in exile in 1887.