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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Rajasthan (made)

Brush drawing in ink on skin, depicting a lady encountering a shepherd.

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Categories	Drawings Paintings Animals and Wildlife Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	Drawn with a brush in ink on 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
Brief description	Brush drawing, lady and shepherd, in ink on skin, Rajasthan, ca. 1820
Physical description	Brush drawing in ink on skin, depicting a lady encountering a shepherd.
Dimensions	Cardboard mount onto which object attached; also absolute maximum dimension of object height: 283mm Cardboard mount onto which object attached; also absolute maximum dimension of object width: 181mm 08/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project; not possible to measure whole object, as object attached to mount (08/05/2013)
Content description	A lady encountering a shepherd.
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	Woman Shepherd Tree Dog
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.398-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433577/drawing-unknown/

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