One of six drawings of Burmese types.
Painting
ca.1920 (painted)
ca.1920 (painted)
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Half-length figure of a Yawyin woman carrying her baby; she is in three quarter back view and looks over her left shoulder. She wears a large blue turban, silver earrings and necklace, and a yellowish brown tunic with black sleeves. The baby is asleep, wears a dark red hat and brown clothes, and is tied to its mother with a white cloth.
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
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| Object type | |
| Title | One of six drawings of Burmese types. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Water-colour on paper. Wood frame. |
| Brief description | Burmese framed watercolour on paper; half length portrait of a Yawyin woman in tribal dress and her baby in browns, red and blue with silver jewellery. Signed by the artist, Yatanabon Mg Su. ca.1920 |
| Physical description | Half-length figure of a Yawyin woman carrying her baby; she is in three quarter back view and looks over her left shoulder. She wears a large blue turban, silver earrings and necklace, and a yellowish brown tunic with black sleeves. The baby is asleep, wears a dark red hat and brown clothes, and is tied to its mother with a white cloth. 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. Noel Singer comments that "this watercolour was painted from a postcard of the time". This postcard was published by "The American Baptist Mission Press" mid to late 1920s. |
| Subjects 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.21-1979 |
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| Record created | September 11, 2001 |
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