album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1997,1109,0.164
- Title
- Object: Dhonies of the Malabar coast.
- Description
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A pencil drawing of a group of four lateen-rigged Indian ships (here called Dhonies) in full sail. In the foreground is a rowboat with passengers.Inscribed and dated.
On the reverse is a further pencil drawing of a further native boat (probably a Pattamar) and two others, one cut away and the other with the masts and sails cut away.
- Production date
- 1823-1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 21.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album titled: "Worthless Scraps from Many Lands".
A Dhony or Doney is a "huge vessel of the ark-like form....[with] one mast [and] a lugsail..."(Edye 1834, 13; see also Hobson Jobson, p. 323). These authorities state that the Doney is native to the Coromandel Coast. The label on the drawing specifically states "Malabar Coast". See Edye 1834, 10-11 for a description of the Pattamar)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Heavily cut down on the reverse side.
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- Prior to acquisition by the BM the collection was kept in Vancouver (Canada) by the vendor who was a descendant of the artist.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1997,1109,0.164