Musician with instrument made from pumpkin shells joined by a wire and played with a bow, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

  • Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.
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[1799]
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31209i
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Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos
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Musician with instrument made from pumpkin shells joined by a wire and played with a bow, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Calcutta] : [François Balthazar Solvyns], [1799]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour.

Lettering

A pennauck ; the shell of a large pumpkin, & half the shell of a small one joined together by an iron wire Latter part of lettering is in ink manuscript Bears number : section 11th ; no. 8

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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 421.199

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Wellcome Collection 31209i

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François Balthazar Solvyns, a Belgian artist, spent many years in Calcutta, producing drawings of the local people and their customs, showing different castes and street sellers. Solvyns employed local Indian artists to apply watercolour to his series "Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos"

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