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Indian sports

Painting
ca. 1830 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Indian sports: wrestling, weight-lifting, archery and sword-play.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleIndian sports (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gouache on paper
Brief description
Painting; Indian sports: wrestling, weight-lifting, archery and sword-play, Patna, ca. 1830.
Physical description
Indian sports: wrestling, weight-lifting, archery and sword-play.
Dimensions
  • Length: 39cm
  • Width: 28cm
Style
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum, November 1879.
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, 89 p. ISBN 0944142303
Collection
Accession number
03533(IS)

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Record createdOctober 4, 2002
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