Wellcome Collection
Two Hindu ascetics: left, a woman wearing saffron robes, brimless hat and slippers and smoking a hookah; right, a barefoot man wearing a saffron loincloth and a tigerskin, and carrying a spear and sword in a scabbard. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
1800
Lettering: Gintoo Myreyjee(?) man & wife ; enthusiast. Lettering handwritten in ink near the lower edge of the image, and (in a different hand?) in the border. The character represents a superscript v(?), and indicates that the word 'enthusiast' is a gloss on the indistinct word following 'Gintoo'
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