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Creator:
Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Title:
Two Jeyties Fighting
Date:
ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and black ink devanagari script, lower center; in brown ink: "A Representation of the Style of fighting | of the Jeyties or Indian Pugilists - this Style of fighting | seems peculiar to the upper Carnatic particularly about Lorapore & ec from Whence the Practitioners go to different parts | of India & are Entertained by different Rajas & Princes before Whom these contests are Exhibited with great | Show & apparatus - Doncl[es] Cungaram Tombut [Gungaram Tambat] in Poona January 1792"

Watermark: TB or BB

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22294
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
fighters | fighting | figure study | genre subject | Indians | men
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17380
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 33, no. 103, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Holly Shaffer, Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, pp. 84-5, fig. 45, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA) [YCBA]


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