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@DalrympleWill @hemantsarin @V_and_A Hookah Burdar or Huqqa Bearer
2nd is some seth?
coloured etching Solvyns Franz Balthazar Private Collection
The Stapleton Collection
The Bridgeman Art Library
at https://t.co/MMx9dQN6v3
https://t.co/xEg4d3wQNM
@DalrympleWill @hemantsarin @V_and_A man smoking #hookah, or huqqa? both can i write?
Watercolour On Paper, c.1850 painting
not much detail is given at Fine Art America
seems hookah is not attached with social status?
https://t.co/S1RQb5QK4Y
@hemantsarin @IndiaArtHistory @DalrympleWill Dance Nautch- as it was called?
colonial men were amused by this art of dance & music of India
girls seems so young?
even by 13 they are stage masters?
Dancing girls & musicians from Madras, a drawing by Christopher Green, c.1800 @britishlibrary
@V_and_A courtesan tying her hair standing on a stool,
Kotah painting, circa 1830
auction at @bonhams1793
hyperbol
symbolism
water droplets turns pearls? that bird drinks?
poetic illustration or personification of poetry & desires of human?
Charkha? Takli-Katli?
spinning Yarn making was a profession required skills, often passed on generation to generation, in clan. company painting documented such jobs
here to highlight women participation in Economy?
Painting from Lucknow, ca:1815-20 @V_and_A
bengalee women, an illustration said to be from "Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque?, Vol. I By Fanny Parkes?
is it true?
seems to be Patna kalam painting or murshidabad?
Jamdanee, bibi-mistress of William Hickey, painted by
Thomas Hickey, 1787 at Calcutta
normally women not allowed themselves to be painted by a Western male artist & in such pose?
painting seems so perfect as photo?
so much detail
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
painting by Tilly Kettle when he was in Madras
gathering at gate of a Temple
so much details he painted using Oil? i think emotions too are there! what you say?
via #RBSI
Hari-Har
Vishnu & Shiv
2 aspects of energy?
i found it just now
Indian painting
anyone knows about it?
Temple, in Fort of Rotas, Bahar
Plate 11 from first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.'
Rohtasgarh? Bihar?
Its porch lin 1800 served Thomas Daniell as a model for his design for a monument to Warren Hastings in Melchet Park in Wiltshire
beautifull painting @britishlibrary