Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

  • Frans Balthazar Solvyns
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[1799]
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31372i
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Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Calcutta] : [François Balthazar Solvyns], [1799]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour.

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Lettering

A joorg, haje ; two drums of different sizes Latter part of lettering is in ink manuscript

Creator/production credits

François Balthazar Solvyns, a Belgian artist, spent many years in Calcutta, producing drawings of the local people and their customs, showing different castes and street sellers. Solvyns employed local Indian artists to apply watercolour to his series "Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos"

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 421.215

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Wellcome Collection 31372i

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