A Young Native of Rank at Calcutta
Title A Young Native of Rank at Calcutta
Accession Number R322-C924
Museum Name Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Gallery Name -
Object Type Painting
Medium Lithograph
Main Artist Emily Eden (1769-1869)
Artist's Nationality English
Artist's Life Date / Bio Data

Emily Eden was an English poet, artist and novelist who gave humorous pictures of English life in the early 19th century. In her youth, she and her sister Fanny travelled to India, where her brother George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland was in residence there as Governor-General from 1835 to 1842.

She wrote accounts of her time in India.

Provenance Messrs Cambray & Co, 3-9-1910
Origin Place Westminster, U.K.
Period / Year of Work 1843 CE
Dimensions 52.2 x 35.5cm
Brief Description

From Portraits of the Princes & people of India. 1.A student at the Hindoo College. 2.A Child of one of the servants of Government House.