Female dancers

Mabon, Robert (active 1792)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

24.8 cm  (9 3/4 in.)

Width:

35.6 cm  (14 in.)

Technique / Medium:

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

Description

Set in a forest clearing, this drawing shows a semicircle of twenty-one bare-breasted women in matching skirts (half sarees); their arms are interlocked and each one has one foot raised, matching the pose of a nude female who faces them; possibly a representation of a Hindu rite of passage (Ritu Kala Samskaram).

Iconclass

12BB42
ritual practices ~ puberty and initiation ('rites of passage') (non-Christian religions) - BB - girls
43C94
group dancing
48C8422
female dancer
25HH15
forest, wood - HH- ideal landscapes
47I861
clearing ~ forest

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6313