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Add Or 2529

Record Id:

040-003269667

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003269663

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00004f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add Or 2529

Title:

Crippled beggar and wife.

Scope & Content:

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 number of minor differences: Gold’s picture is in reverse and includes two children standing beside the woman. The beggar is in profile whereas, in the present picture, he is shown full face. He holds the gourd with two hands, instead of one. His stick and crutch are differently placed and he has a bandage round his leg. The palm trees on the horizon are also differently grouped. In all other respects, however, the two pictures are alike and must have been produced by the same shop or family of artists at about the same date.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003269663
040-003269667

Is part of:

Add Or 2526-2536 : Add.Or.2526-2536 11 drawings from a series depicting occupations, ceremonies, temples, temple cars in South India and…

Add Or 2529 : Crippled beggar and wife.

Hierarchy:

032-003269663[0004]/040-003269667

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 2526-2536

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

South Indian style
Tanjore style

Start Date:

1799

End Date:

1801

Date Range:

c 1800

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: opaque watercolour

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Beggars
Occupations