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- Title:
Two Jeyties Fighting
- Date:
- ca. 1792
- Medium:
- 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:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- 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]
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. 84-85, fig. 45, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA) [YCBA]