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Musician with a tamboura, used for supplying a drone, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
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Musician with a tamboura, used for supplying a drone, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by Francois Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

Balt. Solvyns · 1799

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Lettering: A tumboora ; played on by the higher orders for their amusements. Bears number : section 11th ; no. 3. Latter part of lettering is in ink manuscript.

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