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Notes
- Abstract:
- Both the style of production and the subject-matter of ‘Company’ albums were adapted to European taste and included representations of flora and fauna, local communities, monuments, festivals, deities and craft industries. Over half this set have figures thought familiar to European travellers and residents in southern India: a bird-seller, ironsmith, stonecutter, coppersmith, basket-maker or religious mendicant. These are joined by livelier scenes of marriage and funeral ceremonies, and a series of Hindu, Muslim and Catholic festivals and processions. Two scenes with known buildings in Pondicherry suggest that the original owner was French (Text by Crispin Branfoot, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) ( en )
- General Note:
- A sedan is a litter in which women in India are transported whilst seated, carried on the shoulders of four men, Kahar. The handwritten description of this sedan is undecipherable, perhaps Jarjar which may be a perversion of Kahar.
- General Note:
- Pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings
- General Note:
- Folio 46 of CMWL MS 500
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- SOAS, University of London
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- Archives and Special Collections
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- CMWL MS 500 ( soas manuscript number )
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