Period:Unknown Production date:January 1840
Materials:paper
Technique:lithograph, plaited,
Subjects:student headgear/hairstyle reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 42.80 centimetres (folio) Height: 26.10 centimetres (print) Width: 36 centimetres (folio) Width: 19 centimetres (print)
Description:
Portrait of Aeyong (or Chin Seen), standing, with long plaited hair over his right shoulder; a scene of two people standing in a box(?) in the background, reading. January 1840. Lithograph
IMG
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Comments:Folio Collection: This print can be found in a bound pamphlet of “Series of Miscellaneous Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads, No.11, St Andrews library”. The pamphlet was found between As2006-Prt-296 and As2006-Prt-299 in J.B. Davis Folio. The front cover of the pamphlet is inscribed with the name: “Rev R B Boswell”, (and inside the front cover:)”No. 11 containsSale Ezra YashooaManackjee RustomjeeColes of the Dangur tribe Natives of NagporeHindoo female children”Associated documents: A front cover of a published sketches by W. Thackery & Co. A letter from W Thackery and a letter from J.B. Davis discussing that Mr Grant used lithography as his printing technique. In addition is a printed leaflet listing the lithographic series by Mr C. Grant, titled: “Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads” (photocopy available in PicDoc 274), in which this print is listed.Publisher: It is believed that two publishing companies were assigned rights to publish Mr Colesworthey Grant’s lithographs at different periods of time. W.Thackery & Co is believed to have had the first contract to publish Grant’s lithographs in Calcutta, whilst T. Ostell & Co is believed to have re-published and sold the prints to subscribers with handwritten signatures of the people in the portraits at the request of Grant.
Materials:paper
Technique:lithograph, plaited,
Subjects:student headgear/hairstyle reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 42.80 centimetres (folio) Height: 26.10 centimetres (print) Width: 36 centimetres (folio) Width: 19 centimetres (print)
Description:
Portrait of Aeyong (or Chin Seen), standing, with long plaited hair over his right shoulder; a scene of two people standing in a box(?) in the background, reading. January 1840. Lithograph
IMG
Comments:Folio Collection: This print can be found in a bound pamphlet of “Series of Miscellaneous Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads, No.11, St Andrews library”. The pamphlet was found between As2006-Prt-296 and As2006-Prt-299 in J.B. Davis Folio. The front cover of the pamphlet is inscribed with the name: “Rev R B Boswell”, (and inside the front cover:)”No. 11 containsSale Ezra YashooaManackjee RustomjeeColes of the Dangur tribe Natives of NagporeHindoo female children”Associated documents: A front cover of a published sketches by W. Thackery & Co. A letter from W Thackery and a letter from J.B. Davis discussing that Mr Grant used lithography as his printing technique. In addition is a printed leaflet listing the lithographic series by Mr C. Grant, titled: “Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads” (photocopy available in PicDoc 274), in which this print is listed.Publisher: It is believed that two publishing companies were assigned rights to publish Mr Colesworthey Grant’s lithographs at different periods of time. W.Thackery & Co is believed to have had the first contract to publish Grant’s lithographs in Calcutta, whilst T. Ostell & Co is believed to have re-published and sold the prints to subscribers with handwritten signatures of the people in the portraits at the request of Grant.
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