A Bauluk. - A man in a turban holding a stick
Summary
Colored etching of barefoot Bengali dancing boy with painted face dressed as Krishna. Inscription below figure reads "a Bauluk". Boy’s costume includes bird headdress, blue cape, necklace, and exotic ear decorations. He holds a wand. Representative image of a dancer at feast of Jhulan Yatra. From Solvyns’s Collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings, sec. 3, pl. 5.
Tags
Date
1600 - 1800
Source
National Library of Medicine
Copyright info
public domain