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Man Dyeing Cloth
early 1830s
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.2 x 15.9 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- India, Company School, Lucknow, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Members of the British East India Company, largely merchants themselves, collected picture books that were compendiums of Indian professions and occupations, made by a new class of commercial Indian artists. They often emphasized the exotic and primitive aspects of life in India, such as the turbaned, pajama-clad man, squatting on the ground with a blank expression, making dye and hand-coloring strips of cloth using simple terracotta vessels.
