File:India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century - English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah - 2003.145 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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anonymous: English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah
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| Title |
English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
This is an archetypal satirical caricature of an native Indian clerk (babu), a Bengali dapper dandy whose fashion sense combines British and Indian mores with dissonant results. Imitating his British masters, he sits cross-legged on a Victorian chair, holding a hookah, sporting a Prince Albert hairstyle, and wearing European buckled shoes. His posture models popular photo studio portraits of the time. Kalighat painters ridiculed these vain babus as foppish nouveau riche. |
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| Date | 1800s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Black ink, watercolor, and tin paint, with graphite underdrawing on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Secondary Support: 48 x 29.5 cm (18 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.); Painting only: 45.7 x 28 cm (18 x 11 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indian and Southeast Asian Art |
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| Accession number |
2003.145 |
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| Place of creation | India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.145  |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.145 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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