A dancing woman with four male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.

Date:
[1815?]
Reference:
728669i
Part of:
Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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A dancing woman with four male musicians of south India. Gouache painting. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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All are richly dressed. The men play the flute and drum (left) and the castanet and bagpipes (right)

Publication/Creation

[1815?]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache, with indian ink and gold ; image approximately 20.5 x 26 cm

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People of Tanjore. Dancers of the temple. Worship Vishnu. Of no cast, but those from any cast who are not of strict morals dance for hire before kings and chiefs particularly at marriages and all religious ceremonies.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 728669i

Creator/production credits

Attributed to a painter from Tanjore (Thanjavur)

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