album
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.327
- Description
-
Album leaf. A girl offering a wine cup. On paper.
- Production date
- 18thC(mid)
- Curator's comments
- Girl offering a wine cup
Mughal India, mid-18th century
opaque watercolour on paper
This girl offers a tiny wine cup to an unseen recipient. the glass bottle in her left hand is equally minute, suggestingeither that the wine was very strong and taken in small quantities or that it was combined with opium and thus highly inebriating.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- From an album (Add 22363, 1920,0917,0.304-0.329) acquired by the BM before 1880. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB) in 1920.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.327
