Unknown artist (Company style), Indian, Travelling Palanquins, ca. 1800
- Title:
- Travelling Palanquins
- Additional Title(s):
- British officer in India being carried in a palanquin to a Hindu Temple
- Date:
- ca. 1800
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 3/4 × 17 inches (24.8 × 43.2 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 9 1/4 × 17 inches (23.5 × 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower right: "70."; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "X8950R"
Watermark: fleur-de-lis and shield (possibly Strasburg bend and lily)
Lettered below image in black ink, lower center: "Travelling Palanquins."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert Storr in memory of Richard J. Storr
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Accession Number:
- B2023.2.3
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- baskets | clouds | dawn | genre subject | headcloths | hill | landscape | men | palanquins | path | pond | rifles | sandals | servants | sky | soldiers | sunrise | temple | torches | trees | village | yoke
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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