# lockdown21 williamcarpenter art paintings homedecor artonsale


Learning quite a few 'good things' of life.
Smoking, Drinking, Couch Potatoeing, Gambling.. for e.g.
This remarkable 1855 painting by of 'A Game of Pachisi' with is coloured elaborately with heightened shadows to deepen the contrast

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2020-03-26

A postcard, captioned on the back "Choparh Game, New Delhi," c.1930'
men playing chausar-chapad, here they didnt mention pachisi?
here commoners are capture in photo, thus dress too! payjama, kurta/kameej & topi?
girl holds wooden wheel toy-triwheel??

https://t.co/YB9OllHbj2

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2020-03-17

men playing chaupar-chausar or pachisi?

titled as Rajput men playing game of Puchesee; photo by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey, early 1860's


i took it from https://t.co/etImfUNFja

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2020-03-17