A child put to sleep
Title A child put to sleep
Accession Number R435-149
Museum Name Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Gallery Name NA
Object Type Painting
Medium Watercolour
Main Artist Emily Eden (1797-1869)
Artist's Nationality British
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 R B Das, 15-4-1911.
Period / Year of Work AD
Dimensions 29x37cm
Brief Description

By stream of water running on his head.
Detailed Description

Watercolour