One of seven drawings of people and occupations and a lion.
1870
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1870
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
One of seven drawings of people and occupations and a lion. is a 1870 paint by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a man in a long coat holding a lion on a leash. The man wears a turban and the lion looks calm, almost tame. The background is plain and dark, so the focus stays on them. These small company paintings were made for British workers in India. Artists mixed Indian styles with Western tricks like shading. They gave Europeans snapshots of local jobs and people. Look for more like this at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour on paper depicts a gardener, identified as a mali, holding a tray with a vase of flowers and fruit, surrounded by additional flowers. The figure wears a blue Western-style jacket over a beige dhoti, a red turban, and red shoes. The work is part of an album collected by John Lockwood Kipling between 1865 and 1893, later presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum by his son, Rudyard Kipling, in 1917.
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