Playing card, Brahmin Sadanand, Gujarat, 1776
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1776
Playing card, Brahmin Sadanand, Gujarat, 1776 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1776. The museum's brief description reads: Playing card, nine of spades, one of seventeen European-style rectangular playing cards with drawings on the back, Gujarat, 1776.
Museum description: One of seventeen European-style rectangular playing cards with drawings on the back. The museum record gives material recorded as pen, ink, watercolour; measurements Length 9.3 cm; Width 6.3 cm; place associated: Gujarat; maker recorded: Brahmin Sadanand. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- pen, ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
- Length 9.3 cm; Width 6.3 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Pen, ink, watercolour
- Maker recorded
- Brahmin Sadanand
- Place recorded
- Gujarat
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'The Figure of a [illeg.] / who by long [illeg.] / [illeg.] in one / Posture became / fixed to the attitudes / here described which / is drawn from / the life by Bramin / Sadanand / [illeg.] / January 7th 1784 / The attitude is / supposed to be / that of Prayer / and Contemplation of the Deity. The [illeg.] / behind is one of his / Disciples keeping off / the Flies'
Identification
- Museum attribution
- Brahmin Sadanand
- Museum object name
- Playing card
- Museum object number
- IS.12A-1961
- Museum system number
- O439479
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the museum record and a specialist reference.