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It was described on acquisition as the depiction of \"A Native Lady of Umritsar\". The artist, Horace Van Ruith (1839-1923) produced a documentary record of the jewellery and clothes of a lady from Amritsar, now in India, and part of the historic region of the Panjab which is divided between the modern nation states of India and Pakistan.  The woman wears a full set of head, ear, nose, neck, arm, hand, ankle and foot jewellery, and her posture is arranged to allow her jewellery, clothes and footwear to be seen to its best advantage. Her skirt and tunic are richly decorated with 'zardozi' (gold wire/thread) embroidery.","physicalDescription":"The full-length portrait of a woman depicts her heavily bejewelled and facing towards the viewer. She lifts her blue gathered skirt with gold-embroidered border to show her silver anklets and toe rings, and at the same time shows the mirror ring on the thumb of her left hand and gold finger rings attached to her bracelets by gold chains.The painting is a documentary record of costume and jewellery of the region as she wears a full set of head, ear, nose, neck, arm, hand, ankle and foot jewellery and a costume richly decorated with 'zardozi' (gold wire/thread) embroidery. 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Placed in the Jewel Room 17 November, 1886\r\n\r\nPresented by the Municipality of Amritsar for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'A Native Lady of Umritsar', oil on canvas possibly by Horace van Ruith, Amritsar, 1880s","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Swallow, Deborah and John Guy eds. <font u>Arts of India: 1550-1900</font u>. text by Rosemary Crill, John Guy, Veronica Murphy, Susan Stronge and Deborah Swallow. London : V&A Publications, 1990. 240 p., ill. ISBN 1851770224, p.219, pl.194.\r\n\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Susan Stronge, \"Indian Jewellery and the Great Exhibitions\", in S. 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