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Add Or 4364
- Record Id:
- 040-003278065
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003278059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00211c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4364
- Title:
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A camel. Artist(s): Gangaram Cintamani Tambat (fl.1790s)
- Scope & Content:
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Drawing of a camel facing right, from the same album as above.
By the Maratha artist, Gangaram Cintamani Tambat, c.1790.
Inscribed in ink: ‘The Figure of the Common Camel of Hindostan accurately taken from a Living One by Gungaram Chintamun Tombut of the follg. Dimensions vz:’
‘From the Tip of the Upper hip to the highest part of the Head’
‘ between the Ears 1 10.5’
‘Thence to the Middle of the Withers taken with the Curve of the Neck 4 7’
‘Thence to the Root of the Tail avoiding the Height of the Hump 4 11’
‘Thence to the Tip of the Tail 2 1’
‘From the Top of the Withers to the Ground 7 5’
‘From the Rising between thge Hump & the Tail to the Ground 7 4’
‘H[e]ight of the Hump from the Edge of the Hair 1 -’
‘Poona 1790.’ ‘C.W. Malet.’.
Inscribed in nagari: ‘gangaram cimtaman tabat’.
Water-colour on paper;.
Provenance: Sir Charles Warre Malet and by descent. Purchased 1987.
Published: Hobhouse Ltd., ‘Indian Painting during the British Period’, no.7.
Note: From an album done for Sir Charles Warre Malet, Resident at the Maratha court at Poona 1786-97. The precise measurements must have been used in the making of a scale model in wax of this camel - see Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox catalogue ‘Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860,’ 1991, no.5.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Malet Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003278059
040-003278065 - Is part of:
- Add Or 4145-4149, F792 : GANGARAM CINTAMANI TAMBAT (fl. 1790-95) A Maratha artist in the emply of the Peshwa at Poona, who also worked extensively…
Add Or 4364 : A camel. Artist(s): Gangaram Cintamani Tambat (fl.1790s) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003278059[0006]/040-003278065
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 4145-4149, F792
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Western India/Poona style
Western Indian style - Start Date:
- 1789
- End Date:
- 1791
- Date Range:
- c 1790
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cintamani Tambat, Gangaram, fl 1790s
- Subjects:
- Animals
Camels
mammals