Cleveland Museum of Art

Man Dyeing Cloth

Date

early 1830s

Medium

Gum tempera and ink on paper

Culture

India, Company School, Lucknow, 19th century

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Members of the British East India Company, largely merchants themselves, collected picture books that were compendiums of Indian professions and occupations, made by a new class of commercial Indian artists. They often emphasized the exotic and primitive aspects of life in India, such as the turbaned, pajama-clad man, squatting on the ground with a blank expression, making dye and hand-coloring strips of cloth using simple terracotta vessels.

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