Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Sketches of Burmese figures.
Call Number
D Middle 76/GC168/Box 02/Normal/19th c./Artists A-C GA 2006.02015
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcx346dh84f
Publisher
1835.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1835
Extent
1 item ; sheet 19.1 x 26.5 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Watercolors, Pencil drawings on paper
Artist information: J. Birney is identified as the wife of Colonel Birney, British resident of Rangoon.
Inscribed in pencil, below each figure: "Lictor - Servants Officer - Priests always dress in yellow receiving their daily rice - offering of wax candles red wicks - offerings of cooked rice for images - gentleman at leisure..".
Inscribed in ink, below: "This must not be copied // C. S. W. Webb".
Item description: Drawing of 14 Burmese figures in various costumes, accompanied by letter from artist.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Buddhist priests—Burma—19th century—In art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
4

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9b6a5ae0-11b0-4323-a5dd-611e4de88748/manifest