One of six drawings of Burmese types.
Painting
ca.1920 (painted)
ca.1920 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Half-length figure of a girl; she is naked except for large numbers of blue and yellow necklaces, and silver and blue and yellow armlets (several silver ones on her lower left arm). She has her hair parted almost in the middle, and wears a conical blue cap with a yellow border, and looped ear plugs; she has a belt around her waist.
Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects.
Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | One of six drawings of Burmese types. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper. Wood frame. |
| Brief description | Burmese framed watercolour on paper; half length portrait of a Naga Girl in tribal dress consisting of a blue and yellow cap and quantities of jewellery of blue, yellow and silver. Signed by the artist, Yatanabon Mg Su ca.1920 |
| Physical description | Half-length figure of a girl; she is naked except for large numbers of blue and yellow necklaces, and silver and blue and yellow armlets (several silver ones on her lower left arm). She has her hair parted almost in the middle, and wears a conical blue cap with a yellow border, and looped ear plugs; she has a belt around her waist. Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Mrs. H.A. Hinds |
| Production | The artist was from Mandalay but it is thought he spent his working life in Rangoon |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period
Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 184 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.19-1979 |
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| Record created | July 25, 2001 |
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