Muslim beggar, 19th-century India. The term 'Mahomedan' in the inscription is an archaic term for Muslims. This watercolour is plate 67 from one of a

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Muslim beggar, 19th-century India. The term 'Mahomedan' in the inscription is an archaic term for Muslims. This watercolour is plate 67 from one of a set of three volumes by the Indian-born British artist and amateur ornithologist Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). These volumes, dating from 1858, consist of artworks of the people, flora and fauna of 19th-century India, particularly in and around the city of Kotagiri, in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India.

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