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Author
unidentified artist, J. Dorman (?)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Jamsetjee Bomanjee (1756-1821) and Nourojee Jamsetjee (1774-1860), Parsi master shipbuilders.

Ca. 1830. By an unidentified artist, J. Dorman (?), possibly a relation of J.J. Dorman who exhibited two oil paintings at the Royal Academy in 1855 and 1857.
Oil on canvas. Presented by Sir Charles Forbes, 2 July 1836.
The two portraits each measure 42 x 36 cm.
RAS 01.007-01.008
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain

In the portrait the sitters wear embroidered pashmina shawls, it was customary for the ship-builders to be given shawls by the representatives of the East India Company at the launching of a new ship. Both men were of the famous Lowjee family of Parsi shipbuilders active in Bombay from the early 19th century.
Date circa 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source/Photographer [https://royalasiaticcollections.org/ras-01-007-01-008-jamsetjee-bomanjee-1756-1821-and-nourojee-jamsetjee-1774-1860-shipbuilders/ Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain

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