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WD4171
- Record Id:
- 032-003268273
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268273
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001272
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4171
- Title:
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Forty-four drawings, some on tracing paper, of Indian types in an album containing the title page and forty plates from 'Hindoostany Characters engraved and coloured by F. Dormieux', Calcutta, 1805 (P2489-2488).
- Scope & Content:
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Forty-four drawings, some on tracing paper, of Indian types in an album containing the title page and forty plates from ‘Hindoostany Characters engraved and coloured by F. Dormieux’, Calcutta, 1805. c.1800.
The engravings (P2849-2888) have been trimmed and laid down, with ‘Forty’ added before ‘Hindoostany’, and (‘and a collection of Tracings) by Sir R.W.’ on the titlepage. The subjects suggest the artist planned to produce a set similar to Solvyns’ ‘Hindus’. Dormieux’s known work is limited to engravings of title-pages of a few books, some engravings in the ‘Asiatick Register’, a map in Franklin’s ‘George Thomas’, 1803, and his ‘Hindoostany characters’. A Francis Dormieux is listed as a silversmith and jeweller working in Calcutta around 1800-20. See: Wynyard R.T. Wilkinson, ‘The makers of Indian colonial silver: a register of European goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewellers, watchmakers and clockmakers in India and their marks, 1760-1860,’ London, 1987.
Album entitled: ‘Hindoo Costumes’; 24.5 by 15.5 cm. Drawings various sizes in pencil, pen and ink and water-colour; ‘R.W.’ presumably compiled the album.
Purchased 1987.
f.41 Standing figure with rifle, shield and waterpot; 22.5 by 13 cm.
f.42 Standing figure with ‘tulvar’, and shield; 20 by 12.5 cm.
Note: A similar figure is called by Solvyns a ‘Brijbasi’.
f.43 Standing figure wearing a ‘dhoti’, with ‘tulvar’ and scabbard; 19 by 13.5 cm.
f.44 Hindu dressed in a ‘jama’ holding a scroll; 20 by 12.5 cm.
f.45 Similar figure; 18 by 13 cm.
f.46 Brahmin with loose hair; 17.5 by 8 cm.
f.47 Brahmin with top knot; 20.5 by 9 cm.
f.48 Male dancer; 21.5 by 12. 5 cm.
f.49 Male figure studies; 12 by 13 cm.
f.50 Coconut palm; 18.5 by 13 cm.
f.51 Woman preparing to become ‘sati’.
Inscribed: ‘Preparing to be Buried or burnt alive. Head uncovered - long black hair. Body naked to the waist lower part draped to the ankles. No ornaments on the neck, Arms or Ankles’; 18.5 by 22 cm.
f.52 Young man; 20 by 13 cm.
f.53 Young man making a ‘salaam’; 20 by 13 cm.
f.54 Study of a carving of a leg with drapery; 17 by 13 cm.
f.55 Standing figure with ‘tulvar’; 17.5 by 12 cm.
f.56 Hindu woman; 16.5 by 7.5 cm.
f.57 Hanuman trampling on a prostrate man.
Inscribed: ‘Hoonoomaun’; 12 by 11.5 cm.
f.58 Hayagriva, horse-headed avatar of Visnu, winged, in a tall crown, carrying sword, discus, mace and shield.
Inscribed: ‘Hoonoomaun’; 12.5 by 7 cm.
f.59 Brahmin carrying a palm leaf manuscript; 15.5 by 8.5 cm.
f.60 Standing Brahmin, with study of his topknot.
Inscribed: ‘Hindoo’; 17.5 by 10 cm.
f.61 ‘Mussulman Mullah’; 12.5 by 10 cm.
f.62 Figures from Dormieux’s ‘Hindoostanee Characters’.
f.62a Woman with basket (no.11); 8.5 by 3.5 cm.
f.62b Shaiva mendicant (no.8); 8.5 by 5 cm.
f.62c Woman grinding spices (no.33); 6.5 by 7.5 cm.
Note: In reverse to the engravings, possibly one of the stages in the transfer to the plate.
f.63 Vaisnava with bell; 15.5 by 8.5 cm.
f.64 Youth wearing a ‘jama’; 19.5 by 12 cm.
f.65a Women with waterjars; 11.9 cm.
f.65b Brahmin with ‘Sivalingam’.
Inscribed: ‘A Bramin’; 8.5 by 11 cm.
f.66 Standing figure wrapped in a shawl; 19.5 by 11.5 cm.
f.67 ‘A Domestic Servant in an Indian establishment’; 16 by 11.5 cm.
f.68 Seated drummer with tambourine; 12 by 9 cm.
f.69 Standing drummer; 11.5 by 18.5 cm.
f.70 Man with sword and ‘katar’; 17 by 10 cm.
f.71 Man holding a ‘vina’; 17 by 11.5 cm.
f.72 Studies of standards, drums and baskets; 18 by 12 cm.
f.73 Standing woman; 18.5 by 10 cm.
f.74 Two standing figures with swords; 17.5 by 12 cm.
f.75 Male dancer; 16.2 by 12 cm.
f.76 Man with a lance; 19.5 by 8.5 cm.
f.77 Young man with folded arms; 14.5 by 8 cm.
f.78 ‘Brahmin - women carrying Water for dressing their food’; 15 by 13 cm.
f.79 ‘A natives Hut - and the manner of boiling rice’; 17.5 by 13 cm.
f.80 Seated woman winding thread; 25 by 13 cm.
f.81 Similar figure; 14.5 by 18.5 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268273
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268273
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1801
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; pen-and-ink; watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 6-8
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Castes and Tribes
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