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Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta, West Bengal Wall Art
ART BY: Frans Balthazar Solvyns
Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta, West Bengal Wall Art
ART BY: Frans Balthazar Solvyns
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Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta, West Bengal is an etchings by Frans Balthazar Solvyns (1760–1824), dated [1799]. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4341 × 6000 px (4.2 MB). Catalogued under Illustration, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 39 works by Frans Balthazar Solvyns, a Flemish artist.
Frans Balthazar Solvyns or François Balt(h)azar(d) was a Flemish marine painter, printmaker and ethnographer. While living and working in India from 1791 to 1803, he made many drawings of the manners and customs of the Indians, especially of Calcutta, which he later etched and published.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Frans Balthazar Solvyns →
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