Darners at work on the manufacture of shawls, some of the finished products hanging from lines above them, women and children watching from one side. By a Sikh artist, Amritsar or Lahore, c.1866 watercolour on paper, blue rules, in a


Darners at work on the manufacture of shawls, some of the finished products hanging from lines above them, women and children watching from one side. By a Sikh artist, Amritsar or Lahore, c.1866 watercolour on paper, blue rules, in a near-contemporary French mount with label of Susse Freres on reverse, painted surface 248 by 430mm. From the same series of illustrations of shawl production. V.Murphy op. cit. no. 5 is a variation of the same stage of manufacture, again with interesting variations of detail


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