'Muslin manufacture, commerce, etc, of Dacca. A Tantee or Indian weaver, 1826'. Engraved by J. Landseer. A plate from D'Oyly's Antiquities of Dacca. Artist(s): Landseer, John (1769-1852) after D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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'Muslin manufacture, commerce, etc, of Dacca. A Tantee or Indian weaver, 1826'. Engraved by J. Landseer. A plate from D'Oyly's Antiquities of Dacca.. Artist(s): Landseer, John (1769-1852) after D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Lamas' quarters—Tongsa Jong [?or Byakar Dzong, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a paved courtyard towards two sides of the two-storeyed wooden building. The caption as given appears to be incorrect. The photograph also appears in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 446), with the following caption: 'Interior o...
Delhi. Embroiderer. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd and Robertson Photo:1125 in the negative but cropped in the print. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalague as 'Embroiderer.' The image shows two men, one seated on a chair another on the ground, weaving at a handloom.
Malabari men and women engaged in various processes of cotton weaving, apparently in Malta.. Artist(s): Tresham, Henry (1750-1814)
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Men and women engaged in various processes of cotton weaving. Inscribed in a painted trompe l’oeil panel: ‘MALTA - Indians from the Coast of MALABAR. Brought over by Admiral Suffren’.