album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1984,0124,0.1.60
- Description
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Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of a shoemaker and his wife. The man, wearing purple trousers and a white tunic, with a green shawl over his shoulder, makes a shoe which he is holding in his left hand whilst holding an implement in his right. Surrounding him are the implements of his trade and unfinished shoes. A water pipe is on his right. Opposite him is his wife, seated on a low four legged stool. She appears to be cutting out leather templates for the shoes, ready for her husband to finish. She wears yellow trousers under a short green tunic. A white odhni (length of cloth over the shoulders and head) covers her.
- 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
- 1984,0124,0.1.60
