Shikaury - Public domain portrait print
Summary
Etchings from the major collections by Francois Balthasar Solvyns, showing life in early colonial Calcutta:
"Mounted hand-colored 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)
Tags
manners customs and dresses of the hindoos
india
calcutta
colonial period
portrait prints
male portrait
Date
1799
Source
Columbia University
Link
Copyright info
public domain