An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations.
1815
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1815
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
An album containing fifty-three drawings depicting occupations. is a 1815 paint by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a person working as a painter. The artist made this as part of a big album with 53 drawings of different jobs. It's interesting because the drawings in the album have labels in two languages: Urdu and English. This painting is from a style where Indian artists mixed their traditional styles with European ones. Check out the technique called chiaroscuro.
The work is one of fifty-three drawings in an album depicting various occupations, showing a painter at work in profile. The artist sits with a paint box, pigments, and brushes before him and a bolster behind, painting a portrait of a woman. Trees appear in the left background of the scene.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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