Indoislamica: art and rare books relating to India, Central Asia and the Islamic world

Prints

Bramine Malibare, assistant aux obseques d'une veuve. (A Malibar Brahmin assisting at the funeral rites of a widow).

Paris 1781.

Copper engraving on rag paper with original hand-colour. Inscribed in the plate 'J ch Bar fecit cum priviligeo regis ... 1781...'

An attractive, full length depiction of an eighteenth century Hindu musician playing a trumpet.