Dedar Khan Jemadar
Title Dedar Khan Jemadar
Accession Number R435-9
Museum Name Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Gallery Name NA
Object Type Painting
Component Material II Select
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.

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Provenance Messrs R B Das, 15-4-1911.
Period / Year of Work 1837 AD
Dimensions 32x22cm
Brief Description

Dedar khan jemadar in his winter livery-group of tailors & bearers in the background, Calcutta, 1837

Detailed Description

Watercolour