An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations.
Painting
ca.1815 - ca. 1820 (made)
ca.1815 - ca. 1820 (made)
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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.
‘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.
Object details
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| Title | An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Painting, a woman spinning with a charka, from an album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations, Lucknow, ca.1815-20. |
| Physical description | A woman spinning seated with a charka. From an album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations. A wall to left and landscape behind. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period
Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 125 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Other number | 7970 - Previous number |
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| Accession number | AL.7970:12 |
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| Record created | January 18, 2000 |
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