ca. 1830
Description
Nautch-party: Social entertainment with three women, two dancing and one keeping time by hand-clapping, followed by five men - two playing sarangis, one with hand-cymbals, one with a mridanga, one with a tambura - followed by two more women, one young, one older, the latter wearing a Kashmir shawl and a red, yellow and green mashroo skirt. From a volume containing thirty folios depicting castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and procession scenes.
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Descriptive Medium
Watercolour and gouache on paper
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
©Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Location
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Country
India
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
People & Society
