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An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations.
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An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations.
- Object:
Painting
- Place of origin:
Lucknow, India (made)
- Date:
ca.1815 - ca. 1820 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour
- Museum number:
AL.7970:12
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This Company Painting is from an album of 53 depicting miscellaneous occupations and activities. In this picture a woman is seated with a spinning wheel known as a charka. Each picture in the album has an identification in Urdu and sometimes also in English.
‘Company paintings' were produced by Indian artists for Europeans living and working in the Indian subcontinent, especially British employees of the East India Company. They represent a fusion of traditional Indian artistic styles with conventions and technical features borrowed from western art. Some Company paintings were specially commissioned, while others were virtually mass-produced and could be purchased in bazaars.
