TANJORE, SOUTH INDIA, CIRCA 1815-1830

Two albums of similar coloured drawings are in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Most drawings illustrate Gods, Goddesses, Saints and scenes drawn from the Hindu mythology and have bilingual inscriptions in English and Telugu. They are attributed to 1830 Tanjore. A set of twelve drawings, equally similar in style is dated to circa 1814 on the basis of the watermark of the European paper used in the album (A.L. Dallapiccola, South Indian Paintings, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2010, cat.2 and cat.5, p.33-6 and p.74-95).