album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1984,0124,0.1.56
- Description
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Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of a man and woman carding cotton. The man is seated on the ground holding a bow-like instrument with his left hand and another implement in his right. On the ground below the bow-like instrument is a white mat and the suggestion of clumps of cotton. An over turned basket is shown next to his feet. The man wears a white tunic and trousers and a white turban. The woman sits opposite him and has a basket of cotton next to her. She rolls a ball of cotton with her hands. She wears a long white tunic and head dress which has a red front.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.70 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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The painting is in an album bound in leather with blind tooling and patterned endpapers.
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This painting is from an album of sixty paintings (1984,0124,0.1.1-60) that illustrates Sikh rulers, architecture and trades and occupations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-16 14 November - 15 May, London, BM, 'Life and sole: Footwear from the Islamic world'
- Acquisition date
- 1984
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1984,0124,0.1.56
