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It depicts the interior of a workshop, with eleven women seated on the ground drawing by hand the patterns on cotton cloths supported on bamboo stands. In the foreground are bowls of colours, implements, and a wax-heating stove used in the batik process.","physicalDescription":"The picture depicts the interior of a workshop, with eleven Javanese women seated on the ground drawing by hand the patterns on cotton cloths supported on bamboo stands. 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Her family name was originally ‘Hughes’, added ‘Tharle’ in1921 in gratitude to her mother for the sacrifices she made bringing her up after their Father’s premature death at 35.\r\n\r\nElfrida received art training at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and ateliers in Paris.  She spent two years travelling to Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia in the 1920s and had produced several drawings in watercolours, of which she donated five pictures to the V&amp;A in 1928.\r\n\nThe “Javanese Batik Workers” was finished on July 21, 1923, at Djokjakarta (Yogyakarta), Indonesia. By the courtesy of the Kunstarbeid (art work depot) there, Elfrida was permitted to sketch in their actual workshop, while the women worked.  The artist claimed that under the auspices of the Dutch Government, the best Batik in Java was done there.\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Javanese Batik-workers of the <i>Kunstarbeid</i> (Art-Work Depot), Jogyakarta, Java, by Elfria Tharle-Hughes, 1923.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Salaman, Malcolm C. “A gossip about prints and watercolours” in Apollo: A journal of the Arts, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1925, pp. 295-299."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.47-1928"],"accessionNumberNum":"47","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1928,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-15","recordCreationDate":"2004-09-24","availableToBook":true}}