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Not currently on display at the V&A
On short term loan out for exhibition

Painting

ca. 1765 - ca. 1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, the marriage of a child to a middle-aged man. The child is in an orange skirt and veil being carried by her mother. the child and the groom are tied with green ribbon and they are circling the sacred fire. There are dancers and musicians nearby.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
The child marriage, opaque watercolour on paper, Garhwal or Guler, ca. 1765-1790
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, the marriage of a child to a middle-aged man. The child is in an orange skirt and veil being carried by her mother. the child and the groom are tied with green ribbon and they are circling the sacred fire. There are dancers and musicians nearby.
Dimensions
  • Height: 230mm
  • Width: 326mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 163mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 260mm
17/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
The marriage of a child to a middle-aged man.
Style
Object history
Purchased from D.G. Wells. Registered file 1956/937
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 p. 159, cat. no. 46, and vol. 2, p. 112
Collection
Accession number
IS.15-1956

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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