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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Mewar (made)

Drawing, ink on paper highlighted with watercolour, depicting a Hindu teacher reading a palm leaf manuscript, and two unfinished bust portraits.

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Categories	Drawings Paintings Portraits Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	Drawn and painted in ink and watercolour on paper Watercolour Paper Paint Ink Painted Drawn
Brief description	Drawing on paper highlighted with colour, depicting a Hindu teacher and two unfinished bust portraits, Mewar, ca. 1835
Physical description	Drawing, ink on paper highlighted with watercolour, depicting a Hindu teacher reading a palm leaf manuscript, and two unfinished bust portraits.
Dimensions	Paper mount onto which object attached (also approx. dimensions of object) height: 161mm (approx. (object)) Paper mount onto which object attached (also approx. dimensions of object) width: 157mm (approx. (object)) 05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project; not possible to accurately measure object due to the way in which it is mounted
Content description	A Hindu teacher reading a palm leaf manuscript, and two unfinished bust portraits. The left hand portrait resembles Raja Jawan Singh of Udaipur (1828-1838)
Style	Mewar
Credit line	Given by Col. J.G. Gayer-Anderson C.M.G., D.S.G. and Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson.
Object history	Previously in the Gayer-Anderson collection of Indian drawings.
Subjects depicted	Men Teacher Manuscript
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.181-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433384/drawing-unknown/

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