Painting
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
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About the painting
This narrative painting done in the Panjab, probably in Lahore, in about 1800-1810 incorporates two distinct scenes. The foreground depicts a courtyard in which a teacher blesses a child whose father or guardian sits behind him, with seven other pupils nearby. An eighth is being punished by having to stand in the kukkar, or 'cockerel' position: looping his arms around his legs, he bends to hold his ears. A book being read by one of the pupils is in Arabic script, but this does not seem to be a religious school as the variety of headgear worn suggests the pupils belong to different communities. The second scene, at upper right, shows the same courtyard in abbreviated form, the teacher watching as the pupil and his guardian walk away.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- IS.20-1952
