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View full screenPart of a model of an Indian woollen carpet (ghaleshu) loom, to a scale of 2 inches to 1 foot: South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna, 1815 - 1821
A.UC.832.45.2
Patna, Bihar, India, South Asia
Bihar, India, South Asia
1815 - 1821
Ebony, flat rectaganular base with ebony poles inserted into holes in the base at diagonal angle.
Commissioner: Tytler, Margaret, 1785 - 1822
Tytler, Margaret. Catalogue of a set of models intended to illustrate the arts & manufactures of Hindostan executed under the Superintendence of the late Miss Margaret Tytler during her residence at Patna and in Tirhoot [Tirhut] from the year 1815 to 1821. With Prefatory Note by Tytler, John. Ass surgeon, Bengal Establishment, Monghyr July 1st 1824. [NMS Research Library, Special Collections]
Savignhac, P. de and Pearson. G. Asiatic Museum Illustrated, Part 1. Comprising Figures of all the Models that were Presented to the Museum by Miss Tytler, making a total of 83. Calcutta: Asiatic Lithographic Company's Press, 1828, Pl. XIX, Fig. I. [University of Edinburgh Library Collection]