Painting
A hand written label for this painting describes the scene as depicting “a Madras hawker.” A hawker is an old fashioned term for a person who sells wares from place to place. Here we see a man with unrolled lengths of cloth for sale.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 128/1998/19
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Archives and images
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- mica | pigment (oil-based) | | |
- Common Name
- painting
- Simple Name
- painting on mica
- Inscription Transcription
- “Madras Hawker”
- Production Town
- Thanjavur
- Production County
- Tamil Nadu
- Production Country
- India
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- late 19th century
- Production Year High
- early 20th century
