Javanese batik-workers
1923
Tharle-Hughes, Elfrida
SSEA
The picture depicts the interior of a workshop, with eleven Javanese women seated on the ground drawing by hand the patterns on cotton cloths supported on bamboo stands. In the foreground are colour bowls [bowls of colours?], implements, and a wax-heating stove used in the batik process.
- Maker/Artist
- Tharle-Hughes, Elfrida
- Classification
- Painting
- Medium
- pencil, watercolour, paper, painted
- Locations
- Yogyakarta
- Dimensions
- Width: 43.2 cm Height: 35 cm
- Departments
- SSEA
- Accession Number
- IM.47-1928
- Credit Line
- Given by the artist
- Rights Statement
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