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A boy dressed as a girl, dancing before a garden pavilion, with two musicians playing on a tambura and a tabla
Miniaturist: Unknown
Bequeathed by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles in 1946 through the National Art Collections Fund.
Height: 213 mm
Width: 146 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1948) by Manuk, P. C. and Coles, G. M., Miss
Production date: circa AD 1780
Current attribution and description made by W.G. Archer, April, 1951.
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Ink
Gold
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Bodycolour including white, pen and ink and gold within wash borders with gold floral design, on paper
Accession number: PD.136-1948
Primary reference Number: 34022
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: OC.6-1936
Accession Number: C.726 & A-1991
Accession Number: C.8-1927
Accession Number: PD.201-1948
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