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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Jaipur (made)

A large ink drawing, with touches of colour showing a lady fastening an ear-ring. She is shown in profile, seated against a bolster, with her right hand and foot extended. The drawing is pricked with holes along the outlines, indicating that it was used for copying.

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Categories	Drawings Paintings Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Drawn and painted in ink on paper with water-colour, painted and pricked Ink Paper Water-Colour Painted Pricked Drawn
Brief description	Brush drawing, ink and water-colour on paper, lady at her toilet, Jaipur, ca. 1780
Physical description	A large ink drawing, with touches of colour showing a lady fastening an ear-ring. She is shown in profile, seated against a bolster, with her right hand and foot extended. The drawing is pricked with holes along the outlines, indicating that it was used for copying.
Dimensions	Height: 488mm (maximum) Width: 335mm (maximum) Measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013 (15/05/2013). Object irregular in shape.
Content description	A lady fastening an ear-ring. She is shown in profile, seated against a bolster, with her right hand and foot extended.
Styles	Rajasthani Jaipur
Credit line	Given by Colonel T. G. Gayer-Anderson, CMG, DSO, and his twin brother Major R. G. Gayer- Anderson, Pasha
Object history	From the Gayer-Anderson collection.
Subject depicted	Woman
Bibliographic reference	The Indian Portrait: 1560-1860 London: National Portrait Gallery, 2010 Number: 978 1 85514 409 5 p. 128, pl. 40, and p. 172, fig. 3 detail.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.315-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433275/painting-unknown/

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