Gouache of embroiderer of scabbard cases, North India, c. 1870.
Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. IS.20:26-1956.
A gouache on mica painting now in the Victoria and Albert Museum shows a male embroiderer of scabbard cases, from Varanasi (Benares), in North India, around 1870. The painting is one of forty paintings of contemporary life in the Indian subcontinent. It measures 18 x 13 cm.
Source: ARCHER, Mildred (1992). Company Paintings. Indian Paintings of the British period. Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, ISBN 0944142303.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 29th June 2016).
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