Title
recto: Nautch girls, Bombay (group portrait) verso: (2 women)
circa 1880s
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Mumbai
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Maharashtra
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India
- Date
- circa 1880s
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- albumen silver print; one leaf from an album
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 36.0 cm sheet
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Jim Masselos 2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 375.2011
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Taurines studio
Works in the collection
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About
'Nautch girls' are dancers who are entertainers (as opposed to temple dancers who perform at Hindu temples to please deities). Here, the women pose for the picture on a porch. This photograph was produced by Taurines Studios, a commercial entity based in Mumbai
( Bombay) from 1885 to 1902.