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About An Indian Dancing Girl with a Hookah Tilly Kettle Vintage Orientalist Painting of India
This painting likely represents a woman of the court of Faizabad, where the London-born artist Tilly Kettle came at the invitation of Shuja ud-Daula, nawab of Ouch (d. 1775), the year this painting was made. Although the woman's identity is now unknown, her pose and clothing are consistent with those of women who performed the "nautch" dance to court elites and East India Company officials. The painting has been cut down on three sides. The original composition probably accommodated a male figure to the left, to whom the woman offers the hookah pipe. The canvas shows signs of having been rolled up, presumably when Kettle returned to London from India. This makes it likely to be a "whole-length portrait of a Gentoo woman in full dress with a hooker," which was sold from Kettle's home following his bankruptcy in 1783.
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An Indian Dancing Girl with a Hookah - Tilly Kettle - Vintage Orientalist Painting of India by Tilly Kettl. Bring your artworks and prints to life with our extra large size products. Carefully printed on high quality materials these large size prints come with equal sized mat that adds a depth perspective (frames) or stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap). Your product will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for canvas rolls and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.