Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (8.3 × 6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: "Moote Ram a native | of Hydrabad"; pen and brown ink, upper left: "No. 4"; inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Moote Ram the dwarf | dancing before Sepoys"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22260
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dancing | military art | dwarf | soldiers
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
Publications:
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 32, no. 98, V2359 (YCBA)