Indian trades and occupations. 21 watercolours.

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577888i
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Description

Subjects include: social types (tradesmen, beggars, peasants) and street crafts and trades (seller of scissors, basket makers, spice and vegetable sellers, carpenters, musicians, costume)

Physical description

25 leaves of drawings : watercolours + album

Lettering

Underneath drawings are descriptive MS inscriptions in English [often with mistakes] and in an Indian language. Album has book plate on front pastedown with name 'J. Barnard Davis M.D.', i.e. Joseph Barnard Davis, author of Thesaurus craniorum, 1867, and other works

Reference

Wellcome Collection 577888i

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