[Portrait of two girls, probably nautch dancers.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two young women, squatting on their haunches facing the camera, the younger girl being groomed by her companion. The abundance of jewellery worn by them suggests they may be dancers.
Major-General Robert Cotton Money Collection: Album of mainly architectural and ethnographical views in Udaipur. Photographer(s): Money, Robert Cotton
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Black and green quarter-leather album, 237x315mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. Prints 1-3: British officers and families at Quetta Railway Station, and a view of the line in Balochistan. Prints 4-6: Government House and the gardens at New Delhi. Prints 7-11: Palaces at U...
An Indian Nautch [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dancers and musicians performing before an audience in the courtyard of a palace. Women in purdah can be seen through bamboo screens at the top of the print. Photograph uncredited, but probably taken by Charles Shepherd. For another copy of this print,...