Children swinging Sudder bazaar. Poona
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Children swinging Sudder bazaar. Poona is a 1850 paint by William Carpenter, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see kids flying on a rope swing outside a busy market in Poona. The house behind them looks worn, but the kids are all smiles. Light cuts through shade, lighting up their clothes. Carpenter painted this in 1850. It’s one of his early India scenes. He loved showing how people lived, right down to their clothes. Check out more like this at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
William Carpenter’s early Indian painting depicts children playing on a swing suspended from a tree outside a house in the Sadr Bazaar in Pune. The work reflects Carpenter’s focus on documenting local customs and daily life, including costume and agricultural scenes, during his travels in central India from 1850 to 1856. Painted shortly after his arrival in Bombay, the scene captures a moment of leisure in a bustling bazaar setting. The painting was later acquired by a museum in 1881 as part of a larger purchase of Carpenter’s Indian works.
Read the full account in the museum source.
William Carpenter (1818–1899) was an English watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his…
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