Cartographer:
CHÂTELAIN, Henry Abraham
Title:
[Four prints on one sheet of seventeenth-century Indian life.]
Stock Code:
4677
Method:
Copper engraving
Colouring:
Later colour
Size: (W x H):
23cm x 37cm
9 inches x 14½ inches
Date:
1710
Price:
£185
The four prints show, from top left: 1. A holy man, seated on a rich terrace, feeding a peacock. 2. Two men seated on the ground, one with a bird on his head, the other has a bird in hand. 3. Three seated women, near a tree. 4. A woman, barebreasted, sitting on a rug in the lotus position, a string of beads in her raised right hand.
Right hand margin shaved to border of print at lower right. Very good condition.