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TANJORE SCHOOL, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
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EIGHT WATERCOLOURS OF CASTES AND OCCUPATION
TANJORE SCHOOL, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Watercolour heightened with gold on paper, depicting various people standing, some panels with English identification inscription on reverse, including "Gowrie Bramin Vishnoo - Sacred Water Carrier from the Ganges; Kurkur (?) Moondah inflincting wounds on himself to extract charity; [..] Coolies Grasscutters; Byragees or religious [..]doos from the upper parts of India called Hindostan.. they carry gours for drinking and mats on which they sleep; Pundarum Lingam; Cowherds selling milk and ghee or clarifying butter", each individually mounted
Each 15 x 11 1/8in. (38.3 x 28.2cm.) (8)
TANJORE SCHOOL, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Watercolour heightened with gold on paper, depicting various people standing, some panels with English identification inscription on reverse, including "Gowrie Bramin Vishnoo - Sacred Water Carrier from the Ganges; Kurkur (?) Moondah inflincting wounds on himself to extract charity; [..] Coolies Grasscutters; Byragees or religious [..]doos from the upper parts of India called Hindostan.. they carry gours for drinking and mats on which they sleep; Pundarum Lingam; Cowherds selling milk and ghee or clarifying butter", each individually mounted
Each 15 x 11 1/8in. (38.3 x 28.2cm.) (8)