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
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis: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.
Contents:
[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.
Subject Terms:
Cattle. | Figure drawing. | Kolkata (India) | India.