FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS WITH SOUTH INDIAN VILLAGERS
Possibly Bangalore or Mysore, Karnataka, Southern India, first half 20th century

Opaque pigments, red and black ink on wove French papers, comprising two scenes with pairs of traditionally-clad men and women in conversation, and two rural life scenes illustrating women selling fans and a man collecting coconuts to produce coconut water, each folio stamped at the back in red with the French Rouen Paper Mill mark, each illustration pasted onto a larger folio watermarked BFK Rives, a paper mill founded in 1787 in Rives and established in 1820 as the Blanchet Frères & Kléber Rives paper mill, the largest illustration 18cm x 32cm.