A musician with a d'hole, a drum played at one end with a stick, and at the other with the hand, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

[Calcutta] : [François Balthazar Solvyns], [1799]

1 print : etching, with watercolour.

A d'hole ; beaten on one side by the hand, & on the other by a stick Latter part of lettering is in ink manuscript Bears number : section 11th ; no. 25

François Balthazar Solvyns, a Belgian artist, spent many years in Calcutta, producing drawings of the local people and their customs, showing different castes and street sellers. Solvyns employed local Indian artists to apply watercolour to his series "Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos"

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 421.216

Wellcome Collection 31373i