Representation of the dancing girls, on the coast of Coromandel / C. Green.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Green, Christopher, artist.

Contributor:

AM (Publisher), digitiser.

British Library, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Dance--India--History--19th century--Pictorial works.

Dance.

Coromandel Coast (India)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Coromandel Coast (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 image).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, approximately 1800]

Other Title:

Title on website: Dancing girls and musicians

Notes:

Dancing girls and musicians from Madras. A girl in the costume of a temple dancer is concentrating on her movements in the centre of the drawing. She is accompanied by a drummer to her left and a bagpiper and two hand cymbal players behind her, while two other girls on the right wait to join in, one of whom may be the teacher beating time with her foot. Pencil pen-and-ink and watercolour. British school.