Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Mabon, died 1798, British
Title:
Sketch of Nana Fadnavis
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured. cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "No 46"; on mount in pen and brown ink: "Sketch of Nanaa Furnaveese"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22273
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
Indian | earrings | sash (quilt component) | turban | portrait | mustache
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. 24, no. 17, V2359 (YCBA)

Holly Shaffer, Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, p. 49, fig. 22, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17626