Not currently on display at the V&A

Drawing

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Rajasthan (made)
Jaipur (made)

A brush drawing, in ink on red tinted skin, depicting lovers embracing on a terrace.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Paintings
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Drawn with a brush in ink on tinted skin. The ink is made up of lamp-black with water and a gum binder, usually gum arabic (hardened tree sap)
Ink
Skin
Painted
Drawn
Dyed
Brief description
Brush drawing, lovers, in ink on tinted skin, Rajasthan, possibly Jaipur, ca. 1800
Physical description
A brush drawing, in ink on red tinted skin, depicting lovers embracing on a terrace.
Dimensions
  • Image; also absolute maximum dimensions of object height: 107mm
  • Image; also absolute maximum dimensions of object width: 81mm
08/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project; not possible to accurately measure object on that date as attached to mount
Content description
Lovers embracing on a terrace.
Style
Rajasthani
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.
Subjects depicted
Terrace
Lovers
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.399-1952

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433576/drawing-unknown/
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