{"product_id":"indian-company-school-a-man-hand-block-printing-calico-textiles-original-early-19th-century-watercolour-painting-ke-057","title":"Indian Company School, A Man Hand Block Printing Calico Textiles  – Early 19th-century watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original early 19th-century watercolour painting – Indian Company School, A Man Hand Block Printing Calico Textiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine Indian Company painting of the Patna School showing a man block printing textiles by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInscribed on the verso: 'A Man Printing cloth'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndian textiles are known for their beauty, with traditions of craftsmanship dating back to ancient times. The history of Indian textiles also crucially reflects the legacy of colonialism; the dominant British East India Company began requesting that craftsmen swap out traditional red-dyed grounds for white to better suit European tastes, and Indian cloth makers also started producing chintzes with motifs inspired by English trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of a set of four Company School Trades \u0026amp; Occupations paintings that are inscribed as being 'For W.J. Rudd Esq', presumed to be a British employee of the East India Company in the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting is a fine example of an Indian Company painting, produced for Western (especially British) patrons in India in the 19th century, many of whom were working for the East India Company. It displays the striking hybrid techniques which led to the categorisation of the ‘Company’ style as a School. While incorporating traditional elements from Rajput and Mughal painting, they were given a more 'western' appearance through their use of perspective and rounded modelling, as opposed to the more decorative, 'flatter' styles that had gone before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn watercolour on watermarked R Turkey, Chafford Mill, 1835 paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55549118120265,"sku":"KE-057","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KE-057.jpg?v=1791459822","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/fr\/products\/indian-company-school-a-man-hand-block-printing-calico-textiles-original-early-19th-century-watercolour-painting-ke-057","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}