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Travellers making music by the waysidefront

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Travellers making music by the wayside

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  • Description

    Laying aside staffs and bundles, a group of Pahari travellers rest by the wayside. They sing together with gusto, perhaps performing some folk tune. One man beats the rhythm on a clay pot, others clap in time and a man dances on the spot while singing. This sensitively observed scene is by Nainsukh or one of his followers. A related drawing is in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › north-west India › Punjab Hills › Himachal Pradesh › Guler (place of creation)
    Date
    1760 - 1770
    Artist/maker
    attributed to Nainsukh (c. 1710 - 1778) (artist)
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 29 x 35.2 x 2.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 16.8 x 22.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.107

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 74 on p. 174, p. 19, illus. p. 175

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