Painting on talc representing ladies’ maid wearing red and holding a ?smoking device with a yellow tube. [LKG 18/11/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Painting on talc representing ladies’ maid wearing red and holding a ?smoking device with a yellow tube. [LKG 18/11/2009]
Long description: Painting on talc representing ladies’ maid wearing red and holding a ?smoking device with a yellow tube. The woman's dress is red with small yellow spots and has a yellow edging around the hems. The red material has been wrapped over the woman's head as a hood and beneath the material a short sleeved white top is visible. The woman wears gold bracelets on both wrists and a large ring through a piercing in her nose. Written below the image is 'Indian Ladies Maid'. [LKG 18/11/2009]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Person: Field collector Alice Marcon; PRM source Alice Marcon; PRM source Margaret F. Irvine
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1801-1900
Date collected: By 1956
Acquisition information: Donated: 1956
Materials and processes: Material Talc, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width 70 mm, Length 110 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1956.3.43.2 Other PRM accession number: 1956.3.43b

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