A hircurrah (Dak runner) delivering a letter to Hindu shroffs (bankers)from Shikarpur, Sind

细节

Kutch School, circa 1850
A hircurrah (Dak runner) delivering a letter to Hindu shroffs (bankers)from Shikarpur, Sind
with inscription 'Shikarpuria Bankers.' (on the mount)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, with gum arabic, heightened with touches of white and gold, unframed
8¼ x 105/8 in. (21 x 27 cm.)

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拍品专文

Sind and Shikarpur bankers were reknowned for their financial skills and they travelled all over India in such a capacity, emigrating as far afield as Calcutta. A great many travelled south to Gujarat where they would have come into contact with members of the court of Bhuj and where Kutch school artists would have included paintings such as the present watercolour, in their albums depicting local characters and visitors to the region.
A similar watercolour attributed to an artist from Western India, Sind or Lahore was included by S. Carey Welsh in Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York, 1978, no. 72, illustrated p. 166.