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An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations.

Painting
ca.1815 - ca. 1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Lucknow (made)

Two Indian ladies wearing traditional muslim dress are seated on a yellow floor playing the traditional Indian board game Pachisi. Lucknow, ca.1815.


Object details

Categories
Indian Company Paintings
SCRAN
Games
Object type
Painting
TitleAn album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Watercolour
Painted
Brief description
Painting; Two Indian ladies seated on the floor playing the traditional Indian board game Pachisi, Lucknow, ca.1815 - ca. 1820
Physical description
Two Indian ladies wearing traditional muslim dress are seated on a yellow floor playing the traditional Indian board game Pachisi. Lucknow, ca.1815.
Dimensions
  • Length: 22.5cm
  • Width: 15cm
Style
Company
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed with identifications in Urdu and sometimes English.)
  • 'women playing iat pacheesee' (Inscribed:)
Subjects depicted
Game
Women
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 124 p. ISBN 0944142303
  • Skelton, Robert, et al, The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 Topsfield, Andrew, cat. no. 101
Other number
7970 - Previous number
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
AL.7970:1

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Record createdSeptember 17, 2002
Record URL
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