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Title(s)
Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata.
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Published/Created
Kolkata, India, between 1821 and 1831.
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Physical Description
1 volume (22 drawings) : graphite on wove paper ; 15 x 24 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS486.C2 R45+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Notes
Jane Caroline Blair was born on April 26, 1797 in London. She married Lieutenant Henry Solomon Reid on November 1, 1821 in Kolkata, where they lived until at least March 1831, when their daughter, Anne Jane Reid, died in London.
Bound in original half leather with gray paper cover boards. The inside of the back cover features a stationer's label for R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London.
Many of the drawings are accompanied by short captions in black ink. The inside of the front cover features an inscription in ink with the name "Jane Caroline Reid." -
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IIIF Manifest
[Laughing face] -- A bearer smoking. A mus[illegible]ehee cleaning plates &c -- Kedgeree pots -- Two bhisties of water carriers -- A choukeedar or watchman. The native mode of carrying children. A choukeedar or watchman -- A woman carrying water. A man carrying water. A woman + child -- These are bulls -- A man smoking a hubul-bubul or Indian pipe. A woman carrying milk, + duhee, or Indian curds. [A man squatting while smoking] -- [Landscape] -- A mosque -- An Indian cottage -- A bullock. A hackery or cart.
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