Add.Or.4152-4163 12 paintings depicting castes and ascetics of southern India. By a Trichinopoly artist, c.1850. Water-colour and body-colour; various ...
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Add.Or.4152-4163 12 paintings depicting castes and ascetics of southern India. By a Trichinopoly artist, c.1850. Water-colour and body-colour; various sizes. Purchased from the Haklyut Society, July 1983. Note: Only part of this set has survived. Although trimmed to various sizes, the iden...
Pilgrim carrying Ganges water. 202 by 160 mm. Note: He stands with a carved pole oiver his shoulder with a skin full of the sacred water at one end, from which an arc of cloth rises over his head and is joined to the front end of the pole. Two plantain leaves are attached to each end of the p...