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1929.87.37

Watercolour sketch of three women in colourful clothing. Signed 'RGW Shillong 1872' [El.B 16/04/2008]

1929.87.37

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Collection type
Object
Description
Watercolour sketch of three women in colourful clothing. Signed 'RGW Shillong 1872' [El.B 16/04/2008]
Geographical reference
India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Meghalaya Shillong
Person
Maker Robert Gosset Woodthorpe
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Ida Wilson
Date / Period
Date made: 1872
Date collected
?By 1929
Acquisition information
Purchased: 05/1929, uncertain Found unentered: 1984
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Watercolour Paint, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 230 mm, Width: max 193 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1929.87.37 Other numbers: No. 2 on typed list of Woodthorpe pictures
Research and responses

The brother of RG Woodthorpe, J. Dalton Woodthorpe, lived in Cheltenham, and was a family friend of the Wilsons. See RDF for J. Dalton Woodthorpe's 1916 donation of artefacts which mentions Ida Wilson. It is likely therefore that they acquired the collection of drawings from him. [CM 23/05/2011]

Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Painting

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