Moote Ram the dwarf dancing before sepoys

Mabon, Robert (active 1792)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

8.3 cm  (3 1/4 in.)

Width:

6.0 cm  (2 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

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

Place of creation:

Bhārat [India]

Description

In an outdoor setting, a dwarf (Moote Ram), with accompaniment from a scantily clad Indian drummer, dances for three Indian soldiers in British uniforms.

Iconclass

31A422
dwarfs
48C8421
male dancer
43C9
dancing
48CC7524
one person playing percussion instrument - CC - out of doors
48C7341
drum (musical instrument)
45B61
recreation ~ the soldier off duty

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Frame drum [2598] (with beaters)

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) 32, no. 98.

Fordham, Douglas. "Costume dramas: British art at the court of the Marathas", Representations 101/1 (2008) 57-85. doi:10.1525/rep.2008.101.1.57.

Notes

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: "Moote Ram a native | of Hyd[e]rabad"; pen and brown ink, upper left: "No. 4"; inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Moote Ram the dwarf | dancing before Sepoys"

RIdIM record id

6314