Attributed to Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Indian, Portrait of a Priest of the Borahs [Bohras], 1794
- Title:
- Portrait of a Priest of the Borahs [Bohras]
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 inches (24.4 × 15.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Extensive inscription in pen and black ink in Sanskrit; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Portrait of a Priest of the Borahs"
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Gangaram | 1794"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22418
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- religious and mythological subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17781
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Holly Shaffer, Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, p. 126, fig. 76, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
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