album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1997,1109,0.166
- Title
- Object: Fort William November 1826.
- Description
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A pen and black ink drawing with grey wash of a palanquin (palkee) and box-like closed carriage with louvered windows (palkee-gharree) in front of a building with louvered shutters, a kind of round-sectioned tower apparently mounted on the roof or standing behind the building and a pair of Adjutant Birds (storks) on the roof. In the foreground are the palkee and palkee-gharree attendants (bearers) waiting for their passengers.
- Production date
- 1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.60 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album titled: "Worthless Scraps from Many Lands".
See Hobson-Jobson pp. 659-661 and p. 664 for discussions of the palkee and the palkee-gharree; p.7 for Adjutant Bird.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Probably cut down.
- 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
- 1997,1109,0.166
