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Add Or 4663

Record Id:

032-003264092

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003264092

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00021d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add Or 4663

Title:

A drawing composed of different Indian types based on the work of François Baltazard Solvyns

Scope & Content:

A drawing composed of different Indian types based on the work of François Baltazard Solvyns. Three musicians and six servant-types in a large Calcutta room. Through a doorway we can see into a bedroom beyond, containing a four-poster bed with muslin furnishings.

Water-colour and body-colour; 427 by 603 mm.

Purchased 1992.

Note: During the 1790s, Solvyns worked on preparing for publication his ‘A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos’, which was finally published in Calcutta by 1799. The figures in both this composition and in Add.Or.4307 are taken from this work, but in mirror-reverse to the etchings, suggesting that the artist, doubless one of Solvyns’ assistants, had access to the original drawings. The three musicians are taken from Section 11, and the servants are from Section 2.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003264092

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003264092

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

Bengal style
Calcutta style
Eastern India style

Start Date:

1799

End Date:

1801

Date Range:

c 1800

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: watercolour

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Entertainers
Musicians
Occupations
Servants