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Our ball

Title
Our ball [graphic] / Capt. G.F. Atkinson, del. ; R.M. Bryson, lith.
Author
Bryson, Robert M., active 1863-1876.
Publication
[London] : Day & Son, [1859?]

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Additional Authors
Atkinson, George Francklin.
Description
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 19 x 25 cm.
Summary
Depiction of a ball in a room cooled by a punkah, a large screenlike fan often used in India. Two couples are dancing, observed by other ladies and gentlemen. With the exception of a dark-skinned man in a white turban and dhoti, all are Europeans, in fashionable garments of the mid-nineteenth century.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Lithographs.
Note
  • Caption title.
Biography (note)
  • Illustration from George Francklin Atkinson's memoir "Curry & rice", on forty plates or, the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India, first published in 1859, with several subsequent editions.
Call Number
*MGZFX Bry R Our 1
OCLC
825552116
Author
Bryson, Robert M., active 1863-1876. Lithographer
Title
Our ball [graphic] / Capt. G.F. Atkinson, del. ; R.M. Bryson, lith.
Imprint
[London] : Day & Son, [1859?]
Biography
Illustration from George Francklin Atkinson's memoir "Curry & rice", on forty plates or, the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India, first published in 1859, with several subsequent editions.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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Added Author
Atkinson, George Francklin. Artist
Research Call Number
*MGZFX Bry R Our 1
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