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Subject Washermen

31. Add Or 5340, f.11

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5340, f.11
Title:
A dhobi with his bullock and bundles of laundry. From an album of Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
Scope & Content:
A ‘dhobi’ with his bullock and bundles of laundry. Inscribed below: ‘Our launderer.’ Note: It is interesting to see the high-caste Dhurandhar take exactly the same attitutude to the lower Indian castes as British artists such as George Atkinson earlier in the century.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1899
Extent:
1 Item

32. Add Or 5561

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5561
Title:
A washerman beating clothes on a stone.
Scope & Content:
A washerman beating clothes on a stone. Inscribed below (Hand B): ‘Blangisseur.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

33. Photo 29(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(36)
Title:
Dhobee's House and tank. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1733 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photograped in the Calcutta area. View looking across the village tank towards a group of washermen and women, with a substantial mud and thatch hut beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1000/52(4960)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4960)
Title:
Washermen at work beside a river or pond. Photographer: Hooper and Western
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which was shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes Watson, 'Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873. A classified and descriptive catalogue...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1172/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(20)
Title:
Dhobi, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-size portrait of a man dressed in shorts and a shirt, sitting outdoors and marking laundry clothes: 'Our Dhobi (laundryman) To mark your clothes ... he sticks a needle into a hard nut, full of black juice, and lays it along your laundry, or to make a dot, pierce...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

36. WD1744

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1744
Title:
The Dhobi, or washerman, beating clothes on a stone. March 1872. Artist(s): Kipling, John Lockwood (1837-1911)
Scope & Content:
The’ Dhobi,’ or washerman, beating clothes on a stone. March 1872. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘J.L.K. Khangaum March 1872;’ on back in pencil: ‘No 26. The 'Dhobi'.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 Item

37. X471/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
X471/1(52)
Title:
'Dobys, Washermen.' A man standing in front of two people washing clothes at a riverside. Section 9, pl.4, in volume 1 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'Dobys, Washermen.' A man standing in front of two people washing clothes at a riverside. Section 9, pl.4, in volume 1 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

38. X471/4(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
X471/4(15)
Title:
'Doby, Washerman'. A laundry man. Section 39, plate 2, in volume 4 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'Doby, Washerman'. A laundry man. Section 39, plate 2, in volume 4 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

39. X803/1(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
X803/1(48)
Title:
'A Doby' [washerman]. Section 1st No.48 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'A Doby' [washerman]. Section 1st No.48 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 Item

40. X803/1(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
X803/1(80)
Title:
'A Doby' [washerman]. Section 2nd No.13 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'A Doby' [washerman]. Section 2nd No.13 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 Item