About this work

An unrecorded India (Rajasthan, Jodhpur) artist painted this in about 1770. It is now at The Met in New York.

How it was made

Opaque watercolour: Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
Watercolour: Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
Ink on paper: Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.

Rights and the museum’s record

Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number: 2002.38
Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Type: Paintings
Department: Asian Art
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Museum record: See it on the museum’s site

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