Penitent - A painting of a man holding a towel
Summary
Etchings from the major collections by Francois Balthasar Solvyns, showing life in early colonial Calcutta:
"Mounted handcoloured etchings, hand-drawn borders, titles laid on, from Solvyns' celebrated work, "A COLLECTION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COLOURED ETCHINGS : DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND DRESSES OF THE HINDOOS"; Calcutta,1799." (and a few attributed by him to other works)
Source: ebay, Sept.-Nov. 2004
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Date
1700 - 1800
Source
Columbia University
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Copyright info
public domain