Balthazar Solvyns' Etchings of Colonial India

A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings descriptive of the manners, customs and dresses of the Hindoos is a manuscript authored by Balthazar Solvyns around 1799. The piece was created and published in Calcutta and currently resides in the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections after it was accessioned in 1960. This manuscript is categorized as a scrapbook and comprises 250 etchings featuring the wide variety of occupations in 18th century India that are typically accompanied by descriptive captions in both French and English.