A groom with a horse and carriage
Painting
ca. 1845 (painted)
ca. 1845 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This is one of two pictures from a set made for a Calcutta resident, showing his house, servants, and pets. The distinguished Company artist Shaikh Muhammad Amir painted them. He worked in the Karraya suburb of Calcutta. From about the 1780s, British residents began to move out of the city centre to the pleasant new suburbs of Chowringhee and Garden Reach. It was here that local artists found plenty of work. Shaikh Muhammad Amir specialised in paintings of the houses and domestic staff of British suburbanites.
Object details
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| Title | A groom with a horse and carriage (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Opaque watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Painting; a groom with a horse and carriage, Calcutta, ca. 1845 |
| Physical description | Artists working at Calcutta portrayed the residences of the British, their servants and carriages, as illustrated in this painting of a groom with a horse and carriage. The groom holds in one hand a fly whisk for the horse and with the other he leads the horse by harness. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Shaikh Muhammad Amir Musawwir, resident of Karaya. (Inscription; decoration; Persian; Persian; lower right of picture; ink) |
| Gallery label | GROOM WITH
A HORSE AND CARRIAGE
Shaikh Muhammad Amir
Watercolour on paper, inscribed in ink
Calcutta (Kolkata),
West Bengal
c. 1845
IS.5-1957
Shaikh Muhammad Amir was a prolific artist based in Karraya, Calcutta and active between 1840s and ‘50s. He showed particular skill in his attention to detail. A keen observer of the lives of the British residents, he depicted their homes, carriages, domestic servants and pets. There are three paintings by him in the V&A collection.(01/08/2017) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This is one of two pictures from a set made for a Calcutta resident, showing his house, servants, and pets. The distinguished Company artist Shaikh Muhammad Amir painted them. He worked in the Karraya suburb of Calcutta. From about the 1780s, British residents began to move out of the city centre to the pleasant new suburbs of Chowringhee and Garden Reach. It was here that local artists found plenty of work. Shaikh Muhammad Amir specialised in paintings of the houses and domestic staff of British suburbanites. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.5-1957 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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