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Creator:
Unknown artist (Company style)
Title:

Basket Makers

Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (22.2 × 18.4 cm), Mount: 11 × 9 inches (27.9 × 22.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "4"; inscribed on mount in graphite, lower left: "60/DB30"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Basket Makers"

Lettered label on verso: "[60] PATNA ARTIST: c. 1830 | 'Basket Makers'. | A woman wearing a white robe is seated making baskets outside a | thatched hut, her husband sits cutting cane nearby. | Watercolour on paper: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. | [ See Plate XXVII ]"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B2017.7.4
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
basket makers | cane | genre subject | hut | knife | reeds | thatched
Associated Places:
India | Patna
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:75601
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