LADIES ON A SWING
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LADIES ON A SWING

PROBABLY PATNA, INDIA, CIRCA 1800

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LADIES ON A SWING
PROBABLY PATNA, INDIA, CIRCA 1800
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four ladies and a small child on a swing with percussion musicians behind, a view to a lake beyond, reverse with later added Armenian inscription
10 3/8 x 16¼in. (26.3 x 41.2cm.)

Lot Essay

The Armenian inscription on the reverse reads "Albert Achdjian, Paris Armenian Museum, Founder, A.A."

For a closely related scene of ladies swinging, attributed to Patna circa 1795-1800, see Mildred Archer, Company Drawings in the Indian Office Library, London, 1972, ill. 35, p.104.

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