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| Keywords: Indian - Portrait Miniature of an Indian Courtesan - Walters 38518.jpg English artists visited India to paint both large-scale and miniature portraits of those serving abroad as mementos for friends and families back in the Mother Country They introduced the European technique of painting in watercolors on ivory to the local artists In this instance an artist from Delhi has portrayed a courtesan dressed as a princess wearing elaborate Mughal gold and gem-set jewelry between 1830 1850 watercolor on ivory gold glass cm 11 43 7 78 accession number 38 518 38187 A Jay Fink Foundation Inc Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of the A Jay Fink Foundation Inc in memory of Abraham Jay Fink 1963 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 place of origin Dehli India Walters Art Museum license 3D Paintings of India in the Walters Art Museum Portrait miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 19th-century watercolor paintings from India Watercolor paintings of women of India | ||||
