A European gentleman is carried in a sedan chair with louvred windows by a group of Indian men holding spears. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold, 1804.

  • Gold, Charles, Captain.
Date:
27 Nov.r 1804
Reference:
640686i
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Description

The men carrying the European who sits with arms folded inside the chair, wear pink turbans and bear red and white markings on their faces. A pillared building stands in the background. Further figures with spears and blue turbans carry another sedan chair in the background to the left of the image. Behind, a backdrop of palm trees with hanging coconuts

Publication/Creation

[London] (Pall Mall) : W. & G. Nicol, 27 Nov.r 1804.

Physical description

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 27.3 x 33.7 cm

Lettering

C. Gold delt. J. Wells sculpt.

Notes

Duplicate record: may be merged with Wellcome Collection 37176i

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, London 1957, vol. II, pp. 393-393, no. 428.42 (Palankeens, passing through a tope of cocoa-nut, Palmyra, and Arica tree)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 640686i

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