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[RAS 015.065] Indian Palanquin


[RAS 015.065] ‘Mohopah or Hindostanee Palanquine’

Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes, customs, and castes of India, by Jairam Das of Patna, ca. 1818.

The album is inscribed in ink: ‘Thirty six drawings presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Lieut. Colonel Carlo Joseph Dyle 15th of March 1834’.