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Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962, British, The Nautch Dancers, ca. 1925
- Title:
The Nautch Dancers
- Additional Title(s):
The Nantch Dancers
- Date:
- ca. 1925
- Medium:
- Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/16 inches (39.3 x 48.4 cm), Plate: 10 13/16 x 13 9/16 inches (27.5 x 34.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "P. A. C. #17730"; in brown ink, lower left: "70· 90."; in graphite, lower right: ""The Nautch Dancers."
Lettered in black ink, within image, upper left, in monogram: "CW" within larger C
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "Charles W Cain"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith Zlotsky
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1990.23.1
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- balconies | costume | dance | dancers | dancing | dark | genre subject | girls | Indian | jewelry | Nautch | Nautch girls | necklaces | performance | performers | saris | shadow | skirts (garments) | smiling | stage | veils | women
- Associated Places:
- Asia | India
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3055
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