Retreat beating at Poona

Mabon, Robert (active 1792)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

mid to late-18th century

Height:

10.5 cm  (4 1/8 in.)

Width:

13.3 cm  (5 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

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

Place of creation:

Pune (Bhārat)

Description

With its point of reference possibly being a specific skirmish between residents of Poona (Pune), India and the British soldiers, this drawing shows five musicians within a garrison setting, two in British uniforms, the other three in Indian attire, with turbans.

Iconclass

45L12
retreat of the defeated
45C9
military music
45C91
military band
45C92
(military) signals
45C21
(military) uniforms
41D221(TURBAN)
head-gear: turban
45C421
garrison

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556] (possibly tirucinnam or karna)
Narsiga [4415]
Side drum [2729]
Fife [3945]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Archer, Mildred. India and British portraiture, 1770-1825 (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979) 349-350, 510, fig. 254.



Shaffer, Holly. Adapting the eye: An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011) 32, no. 97.

RIdIM record id

6312