Dance of Nautch Girls, pub. 1858. Creator: A. Soltykoff (1806?1859).

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Dance of Nautch Girls, from 'Voyages in India', pub. by Smith, Elder & Co., 1858 (litho). In North India, Nautch is one of several styles of popular dance, performed by girls known as Nautch girls; a simple and literal translation of Nautch is "dance" or "dancing"; Prince Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov/ A. Soltykoff (1806?1859) was a Russian artist and traveller in Persia and India; grandson of Prince Nikolay Saltykov.

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