TWO STUDIES OF INDIAN RECRUITS FROM THE 'SIX RECRUITS' FOLIO FROM THE FRASER ALBUM
Delhi or Jaipur, Northern India, ca. 1980 - 2000

Opaque pigments, pencil and ink on wove paper, each vertical composition depicting one of the Indian characters portrayed in one of the folios from the Fraser Album, known as Six Recruits, now part of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery collection (inv. no. S1999.1), the study copying individual characters instead of the full group, focusing particularly on the rendering of their skin tones and folds on their white dhoti (white cloth used as short trousers), each portrait mounted on a white cardboard frame, each 37.3cm x 26.3cm.

To view the original folio from the Fraser album from which these portraits were inspired and copied, please visit the main website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery collection: https://asia.si.edu/object/S1999.1/ (last accessed 23/06/2022).