Reid, Jane Caroline, 1797-1834, Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata, between 1821 and 1831
- Title(s):
- Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata.
- Published/Created:
- Kolkata, India, between 1821 and 1831.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (22 drawings) : graphite on wove paper ; 15 x 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDS486.C2 R45+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15663219
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Notes:
- Jane Caroline Blair was born on April 26, 1797 in London. She married Lieutenant Henry Solomon Reid on November 1, 1821 in Kolkata, where they lived until at least March 1831, when their daughter, Anne Jane Reid, died in London.
Bound in original half leather with gray paper cover boards. The inside of the back cover features a stationer's label for R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London.
Many of the drawings are accompanied by short captions in black ink. The inside of the front cover features an inscription in ink with the name "Jane Caroline Reid." - Subject Terms:
- Cattle.Figure drawing.India.Kolkata (India)
- Form/Genre:
- Drawings (visual works)
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- [Laughing face]
- A bearer smoking. A mus[illegible]ehee cleaning plates &c
- Kedgeree pots
- Two bhisties of water carriers
- A choukeedar or watchman. The native mode of carrying children. A choukeedar or watchman
- A woman carrying water. A man carrying water. A woman + child
- These are bulls
- A man smoking a hubul-bubul or Indian pipe. A woman carrying milk, + duhee, or Indian curds. [A man squatting while smoking]
- [Landscape]
- A mosque
- An Indian cottage
- A bullock. A hackery or cart.
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