Painting
A depiction of a palanquin and bearers on the road alongside a man carrying goods on a pole. This painting on mica was made in Thanjavur, India in the late nineteenth or early part of the twentieth century as a souvenir for visiting tourists.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 128/1998/23
- 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
- palanquin & bearers
- 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
