Watercolor, graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink devanagari script, lower center; in brown ink: "A Representation of the Style of fighting | of the Jeyties or Indian Pugilists - this Style of fighting | seems peculiar to the upper Carnatic particularly about Lorapore & ec from Whence the Practitioners go to different parts | of India & are Entertained by different Rajas & Princes before Whom these contests are Exhibited with great | Show & apparatus - Doncl[es] Cungaram Tombut [Gungaram Tambat] in Poona January 1792"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22294
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | Indians | figure study | fighters | genre subject | fighting
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
Publications:
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 33, no. 103, V2359 (YCBA)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, pp. 84-5, fig. 45, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA)