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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Bundi (made)

Brush drawing, in ink on paper with touches of watercolour, depicting a reclining lady sprinkled with water by a maid; behind her is a second maid, while a third stands outside. Before the bed stand water-pots, unguent-vessels and lotus-flowers, the traditional remedies used to alleviate the fever of love; in the foreground is a lotus-tank.

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Categories	Paintings Drawings Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	Drawn and painted in ink and watercolour on paper Ink Paper Paint Watercolour Drawn Painted
Brief description	Brush drawing, reclining lady sprinkled with water by maid, ink and watercolour on paper, Bundi, ca. 1760
Physical description	Brush drawing, in ink on paper with touches of watercolour, depicting a reclining lady sprinkled with water by a maid; behind her is a second maid, while a third stands outside. Before the bed stand water-pots, unguent-vessels and lotus-flowers, the traditional remedies used to alleviate the fever of love; in the foreground is a lotus-tank.
Dimensions	Height: 219mm Width: 150mm Image within innermost painted borders length: 210mm Image within innermost painted borders width: 140mm Cardboard onto which object mounted height: 224mm Cardboard onto which object mounted width: 154mm
Content description	A reclining lady sprinkled with water by a maid; behind her is a second maid, while a third stands outside. Before the bed stand water-pots, unguent-vessels and lotus-flowers, the traditional remedies used to alleviate the fever of love; in the foreground is a lotus-tank.
Style	Rajasthani
Credit line	Given by K. de B. Codrington, Esq.
Subjects depicted	Woman Servants Vessels Lotus
Bibliographic reference	Archer, W.G. Indian Painting in Bundi and Kotah No. 5, p. 11
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IM.41-1933

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O405222/drawing-unknown/

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