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An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century image 1
An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century image 2
An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century image 3
An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century image 4
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An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians
South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century

Islamic and Indian Art
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians
South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Century

watercolours on paper, bound but lacking binding, inner margins in yellow, some with floral cornerpieces, identifying inscriptions in Telugu in upper borders and in French in lower borders, numbered in upper corners
225 x 175 mm.

Footnotes

The figures are as follows:
1. A soldier, armed with sword and shield [inscription illegible].
2. Homme qui vuille a la tranquilite dans les villages [perhaps a type of irregular policeman].
3. Labourer.
4. His wife.
5. Berger, porteur de lait, a shepherd carrying milk.
6. His wife.
7. Brame qui va annoncer la date du jour, on lui donne qq'un [...] tous les mois (with a note, Ceci est intelligible dans l'original).
8. His wife: Femme de Brame qui porte de l'eau pour son menage. Elles sont obliges de couper leurs cheveux lorsquelles sont veuves.
9. Female musician with a vina (bayadere).
10. A female drummer.
11. A female musician with castanet-like instruments.
12. A female musician with a vina.
13. A female musician, using a jar as a percussion instrument.
14. A female juggler.
15. A female musician playing a wind instrument.
16. A male drummer (Musicien pour les mariages, les enterrements, etc.
17. A male horn-player (Musicien public).
18. A male mendicant musician with a vina.
19. Marchand de Sud, Merchant of the south, carrying a parasol.
20. His servant, carrying a kettle or lota.
21. Caste de Nairs, a Nair man armed with a khatar and carrying a tame bird.
22. Vendeur de perles, coraux etc., a seller of pearls, coral etc.

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