One of sixty-three paintings depicting occupations, festivals and ships.
Painting
ca.1830 (made)
ca.1830 (made)
Not currently on display at the V&A
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place Of Origin |
A girl looking out from a palanquin carried by two men.
object details
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| Object Type | |
| Materials and Techniques | Gouache on mica (Black line drawing). |
| Brief Description | Painting; gouache on mica, A girl looking out from a palanquin carried by two men, Murshidabad, ca.1830. |
| Physical Description | A girl looking out from a palanquin carried by two men. |
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| Object history | These paintings were acquired by W.G. Archer in Patna in 1948 from Ishwari Prasad, the Patna painter, who attributed them to his Murshidabad ancestors and had retained them as models for further paintings. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| 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 198 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Collection | |
| Accession Number | IS.36:33-1961 |
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| record created | June 25, 2009 |
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