Not currently on display at the V&A

Cartoon (Working Drawing)

ca. 1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Jaipur (made)
Rajasthan (made)

A brush drawing, ink on paper, pricked for pouncing (for use as a pinhole stencil), depicting two courtiers.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Paintings
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Cartoon (working drawing)
Materials and techniques
Drawn with brush in ink on paper, pricked
Ink
Paper
Drawn
Painted
Pricked
Brief description
Cartoon, two courtiers, ink on paper, pricked, Rajasthan, possibly Jaipur, ca. 1820
Physical description
A brush drawing, ink on paper, pricked for pouncing (for use as a pinhole stencil), depicting two courtiers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 294mm (approx.)
  • Width: 127mm
15/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013.
Content description
Two courtiers.
Style
Rajasthani
Credit line
Given by Colonel T. G. Gayer-Anderson, CMG, DSO, and his twin brother Major R. G. Gayer- Anderson, Pasha.
Object history
From the Gayer-Anderson collection.
Subject depicted
Courtiers
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.512-1952

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O431975/cartoon-working-drawing-unknown/
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