- Title:
- Musical Instruments
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 7/8 inches (27 × 22.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Musical Instruments"; in pen and brown ink, upper center: "The Instruments composing the Nobus Korna or Band of Merrick attach'd to certain Ranks | of Authority or Nobility in Hindostan & Which Play at the different Pehrs or thatches of the | Day & Night which are divided into eight Pehrs or 3 Hours each Pehr"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22312
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42640
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Martina Droth, Britain in the world : Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2019, p. 99, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 30, no. 82, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]