# Royal Women Feeding Fish

**Unknown artist**  
c. 1740  
Opaque watercolor on paper  
Image: 28.4 × 20.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Outermost border: 28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 29.5 × 22 cm (11 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.); 28.3 × 21 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.189. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/131912).

## About this work

An unrecorded India artist painted this in about 1740. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### 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.

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: India
- Real size: about 11 × 8 in (28 × 20 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Subjects: South Asian
- Colour: olive
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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