Musicians

Mabon, Robert (active 1792)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1795

Height:

15.6 cm  (6 1/8 in.)

Width:

22.9 cm  (9 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Description

Two musicians are seated on the ground, one playing a bowed string instrument (sarangi), the other singing; both are wearing Pakistani turbans (pugrees).

Iconclass

48C7521
one person playing string instrument (bowed)
48C755
vocal music, singing
41D221(TURBAN)
headgear: turban

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Sarangi [3204] (with bow)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Shaffer, Holly. Adapting the eye: An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011) 30-31, no. 81.

Notes

Inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Singing Peshaw"

RIdIM record id

6292