Weaving and Spinning

Villagers Grinding Corn, page from the Fraser Album

Unknown Artist

Man Dyeing Cloth

India, Company School, Lucknow, 19th century

Tyrkere ved brætspil i café i Chalkis

Martinus Rørbye

The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Kehräävä eukko

Johan Knutson

A Barber Cleaning the Ear of a Courtesan

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Zittende vrouw met een juk en een mand

Pieter van Loon

The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras, charmed by the music of a vagabond, comes down to meet him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Young Woman at a Loom

Suzuki Harunobu

Yasoda with Krishna Churning Butter

Eastern India, Kolkata, Kalighat

Enigmes Joyeuses pour les Bons Esprits, Plate 5

Jan van Haelbeeck, Jean Leclerc IV

Yasoda Churning Butter (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat