Street scene with snake charmers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
- Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.
- Date:
- [1799]
- Reference:
- 30638i
- Part of:
- Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos
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[Calcutta] : [François Balthazar Solvyns], [1799]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour.
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A samporia
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Solvyns, a Belgian artist, spent many years in Calcutta, producing drawings of the local people and their customs, showing different castes and street sellers. Solvyns employed local Indian artists to apply watercolour to his series "Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos"
References note
Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 421.248
Reference
Wellcome Collection 30638i
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