Untitled (The studio of a wealthy amateur artist)

The studio of a wealthy amateur artist; groups of seated and standing figures, some sketching a skeleton, part of a suit of armour, or a man in a breastplate, with a man dressed in oriental clothes seated on patterned carpet smoking a hookah, a dog in the centre, and in the background an alcove with spears on either side and figurines above it. c.1842/50. Watercolour, touched with bodycolour and white, over a lithograph.