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WD4510
- Record Id:
- 032-003283507
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003283507
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035588063.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4510
- Title:
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Dancing girls and musicians from Madras.. Artist(s): Green, Christopher (c. 1745-1805)
- Scope & Content:
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GREEN, CHRISTOPHER (c. 1745-1805)
Bengal Artillery. Cadet 1770, Lieut. 1774, Capt. 1782, Lt. Col. 1796. Col. 1800, Maj Gen. 1805. Qmr. to newly raised Golandaz Coys. in 1777; 2nd Mysore War, ADC to Col. Pearse; 1787, 2nd Rohilla War, Major commdg. 3rd Bn. Art.; remonstrated with Lord Cornwallis about being superseded and the 2nd Btn. being sent to the 3rd Mysore War in 1790; 1794 2nd Rohilla War; Commdt Bengal Artillery Sept 1798 till death 31 July 1805. Will 30 July 1805, proved 7 August 1805.
This is the only drawing by the enigmatic Green signed as ‘C. Green,’ and he appears to be identical with the Col. Green of the Bengal Artillery, whose sketch of c.1775 of the ‘Calcutta Cotillon’ was copied by James Moffat some 20 years later (WD494, q.v., inscribed ‘The Calcutta Cotillion. Copied from one by Colonel Green’); and also with the ‘Green’ who signed himself thus in a drawing of officers and sepoys of the Bengal Army in the collection of H.M. the Queen (0665, no. 253 in A.E. Haswell Millar and N.P. Dawnay, ‘Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of H.M. the Queen,’ London, 1970, pls. 188-89). A further drawing is attributed to him of ‘hurcarras’ in Calcutta (Christie’s 21 September 2000, lot 340). Unusually for the period he concentrates on the people of India, whom he depicts with elegance and a languid grace. He would seem to have made the sketches for the present drawing when in the south in 1780-82, and worked it up about 1800.
Dancing girls and musicians from Madras.
Inscribed on the original wash mount: ‘Representations of the Dancing Girls, on the Coast of Coromandel. C.Green delt.’
Pencil, pen and black ink and water-colour; 521 x 419 mm.
Provenance: The William and Mildred Archer collection. Purchased with the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund, Christie’s, lot 37, 24 September 2003.
Exhibited: ‘India Observed,’ V & A, 1982, no. 29.
A girl in the costume of a temple dancer is concentrating on her movements in the centre of the drawing. She is accompanied by a drummer to her left and a bagpiper and two hand cymbal players behind her, while two other girls on the right wait to join in, one of whom may be the teacher beating time with her foot.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Archer Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003283507
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003283507
- 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
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Green, Christopher, painter, c 1745-1805
- Subjects:
- Entertainers
Occupations
dancers and musicians - Places:
- India, Tamil Nadu, Madras, Asia