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early 18th century (made)
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Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a girl sits on a chair playing the vina with her companion providing an accompaniment on the tambura.


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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Large Clive Album, musicians playing vina and tambura, opaque watercolour on paper, Deccan, early 18th century
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a girl sits on a chair playing the vina with her companion providing an accompaniment on the tambura.
Content description
A girl sits on a chair playing the vina with her companion providing an accompaniment on the tambura.
Credit line
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the V&A, 1964
Object history
This album of 104 folios known as the Clive Album was formerly the property of the Earl of Powis, Powis Castle. (RP 1959/1747)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Jaffer, A. Furniture from British India and Ceylon: a catalogue of the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001. ISBN 1 85177 318 5. p.116, fig.45.
Collection
Accession number
IS.133:23/B-1964

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Record createdDecember 15, 2006
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