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Man Dyeing Cloth

early 1830s
Gum tempera and ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Members of the British East India Company, largely merchants themselves, collected picture books that were compendiums of Indian professions and occupations, made by a new class of commercial Indian artists. They often emphasized the exotic and primitive aspects of life in India, such as the turbaned, pajama-clad man, squatting on the ground with a blank expression, making dye and hand-coloring strips of cloth using simple terracotta vessels.

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