Rewa (Central India)
pigments on paper
Company Painting, Signed by the artist Avadh Sharan
A charming Company painting of a medical officer captioned, “Hospital Undress 1926.” Military personnel were chiefly shown in full dress by military artists and photographers. Yet the undress uniform is equally important since the greater part of the military personnel’s daily life was spent in their undress uniform.
The Indian Hospital Corps were was in June 1920 by combining the Army Hospital Corps and Army Bearer Corps and the subordinate personnel of Indian Station Hospitals, comprising persons of categories then considered necessary for hospitals, field ambulances and other medical units. During this period, the Indian army was a separate organisation to the British Army. The main task of the Indian Army was to police the Indian Empire. During the first and second world wars, Indian troops served with distinction in France in 1940, Egypt, Libya, the Sudan, Abyssinia, Syria, Persia, Iraq, Malaya and Burma.
Painting Size (cms): 22 (H) x 18 (W)
Painting Size (inch): 8.5 (H) x 7 (L)
Framed Size (cms): 36.5 (H) x 32 (W)
Framed Size (inch): 14.5 (H) x 12.5 (L)
