Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert and other British officers being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur
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The Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert, and other British officers, being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur (Orissa). They are seated under a tent in a courtyard of the palace. On the left the Raja and his guests, on the right, nautch girls and musicians, in the foregroun...
A group of Lieut. -Colonel W.R. Gilbert's servants on the veranda of a bungalow.
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A group of Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert’s servants on the verandah of a bungalow. The ayahs and a child are seated on the floor, another ayah carries a plate of bread-and-butter, a ‘khidmatgar’ pours tea at a table from a silver teapot, while an ‘abdar’ pours water into a glass carried on a tray...
Crippled beggar and wife. The beggar, his leg amputated at the knee, pours rice from a gourd into a dish held by his wife. Inscribed on back: ‘No.27. Beggars.’ Note: This picture, as already noted, closely resembles plate 39 in Charles Gold, ‘Oriental Drawings’ (London, 1806). There are a nu...
Milkman and wife. The woman is churning butter, a customer and two children seated in front of her. Below, her husband is milking a cow with the calf tied to it. Inscribed on back: ‘No.17. Making Butter.’