Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Scene in the writer's buildings Calcutta!.
Call Number
E South 13/GC021/Box 34/Normal/Unidentified Artists/Titles P-S GA 2011.01250
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8k71nv95n
Publisher
London : [s.n.], n.d. [1811]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1811
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26.5 x 36.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 11833 (gives tentative date as 1811).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [caricaturist]
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature; interior scene. British man sits at table, smoking hookah; refuses to pay bill presented by an East Indian man.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Pipe smokers—India—Calcutta—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
British—India—Calcutta—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Debtor and creditor—India—Calcutta—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Household employees—India—Calcutta—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df2405b3-935d-4658-9c18-5274370f009e/manifest