Paper making / stage / model / part

Description

Part of a model representing a stage in paper-making - hemp rags steeping in wells - to a scale of 1/2 of an inch to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna or Tirhut, 1815 - 1821

Museum reference

A.UC.832.65

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Paper making / stage / model / part

Production information

Bihar, India, South Asia
Patna, Bihar, India, South Asia

Date

1815 - 1821

Materials

Ebony, Hemp

Physical description

Ebony base, figure and frame with hemp[?] matting on it.

Associations

Commissioner: Tytler, Margaret, 1785 - 1822

References

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. [University of Edinburgh Library Collection]