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WD494
- Record Id:
- 040-003282513
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003282509
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00327c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD494
- Title:
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'The Calcutta Cotillion'. Caricature of various Calcutta residents. c. 1796 from a sketch of c. 1775. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
- Scope & Content:
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'The Calcutta Cotillion'. Caricature of various Calcutta residents. c.1796 from a sketch of c.1775.
Inscribed on front in ink: The Calcutta Cotillion. Copied from one by Colonel Green; also inscribed with names of dancers.
Pen-and-ink and wash; 5.5 by 14 ins.
Purchased 19 October 1914.
Note: Colonel Green may have been Christopher Green who died a Major-General in 1805 (see WD4510). Of the dancers, Edward Stephenson, Lionel Darell, John Graham and James Lawrell were all members of the Bengal Civil Service. Mrs. Ann Dyer died in March 1775 and Miss Elizabeth Jane Sanderson married Richard Barwell in September 1776. The original sketch must therefore have been made c.1775. The copy is probably by Moffat since it was purchased together with the other three caricatures (WD495-497).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003282509
040-003282513 - Is part of:
- WD494-497 : MOFFAT, JAMES (1775-1815) Moffat was a Scotsman who arrived in India aged only 14, living in Calcutta from 1789 to 1815. He appears to…
WD494 : 'The Calcutta Cotillion'. Caricature of various Calcutta residents. c. 1796 from a sketch of c. 1775. Artist(s): Moffat, James… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003282509[0004]/040-003282513
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD494-497
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1795
- End Date:
- 1797
- Date Range:
- c 1796
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pen-and-ink; wash
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Moffat, James, 1775-1815
- Subjects:
- caricatures
social life - Places:
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India