Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

  • Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.
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[1799]
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31150i
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Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos
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Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, 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.

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A tobri ; resembling the bagpipe The latter part of the lettering is in ink manuscript Bears number : section 11th ; no. 6

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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 421.197

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Wellcome Collection 31150i

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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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