One of five drawings of occupations and types.
1870
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1870
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
One of five drawings of occupations and types. is a 1870 paint by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a man sitting at a wooden table. He holds a piece of paper in one hand and a pen in the other. A small inkwell and a few scattered sheets sit on the table beside him. It’s one of five drawings about jobs and types of people. The artist mixes Indian styles with British tastes. That mix shows how the East India Company’s workers wanted pictures of local life. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of these works.
A watercolour drawing from around 1870–1875 depicts a young woman holding a huqqa (water-pipe), dressed in a white skirt with a lilac border, a red blouse, and a matching lilac dupatta (scarf). She wears extensive jewellery on her head, neck, chest, and ankles. The work is part of an album collected by John Lockwood Kipling between 1865 and 1893, later presented to the V&A by his son Rudyard Kipling in 1917. This example reflects the Company painting tradition, blending Indian artistic styles with Western conventions.
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