Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Wellcome Collection

Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/46300 · 1799

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: A tobri ; resembling the bagpipe. Bears number : section 11th ; no. 6. The latter part of the lettering is in ink manuscript.

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