One of Forty-two drawings of occupations and conveyances

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Varanasi (painted)

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one comes from a set of 42 that illustrate conveyances and occupations. It shows a man block-printing on cloth.

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Categories	Indian Company Paintings SCRAN Textiles
Object type	Painting
Title	One of Forty-two drawings of occupations and conveyances (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour on paper Paper Watercolour Painted
Brief description	Painting of a man block-printing cloth, one of forty-two drawings of occupations and conveyances, Varanasi, ca. 1815-20
Physical description	A man block-printing on cloth.
Dimensions	Height: 22.5cm Width: 18.5cm
Style	Company
Subjects depicted	Block-Printing Cloth
Summary	The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one comes from a set of 42 that illustrate conveyances and occupations. It shows a man block-printing on cloth.
Bibliographic references	Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British Period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Art Series, London, Victoria and albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992, 106 p. ISBN 0944142303 The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 Number: ISBN 0 906969 26 3 Topsfield, Andrew; cat. no. 114, p. 55 Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Other number	8042 - Previous number
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	AL.8042:13

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Record created	December 15, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O14175/one-of-forty-two-drawings-painting-unknown/

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