A watercolour of a young woman, standing full length, turned to the left: proffering oranges which she holds in her left hand; wearing a long dark robe which veils her face. Inscribed on the mount below: Orange girl. Cairo.

In October 1861 Egron Lundgren (1815-75), an intrepid and seasoned traveller, embarked on a tour of Egypt with fellow artists, George Price Boyce and Frank Dillon. In 1858 Lundgren had been in India, with the British army, where he made many drawings and watercolours recording the conflict and unrest following the Indian Rebellion against British colonnial rule.

This is a watercolour from the Indian Sketches album comprising watercolours and drawings by Egron Lundgren, Nicholas Chevalier, Count Gotz Burkhard Seckendorff and Robert Gosset Woodthorpe. Chevalier's watercolours represent high-ranking Sikh and Ceylonese [Sri Lankan] people who would have sat to the artist during his visits to India and Ceylon while journeying with Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the homeward voyage aboard HMS Galatea in 1870.