Sometimes also called "Sleeping Hindoo Woman" this postcard was about as risque as they got and was labelled "India circulation" in an album of Gobindram Oodeyram postcards put together by one S. Annlickar in 1905.
"At the peak of the Tamil drama movement, she created a sensation like no other actor. Poets penned songs in her praise, painters craved to leave their artistic impressions of her portraits, smitten kings and noblemen chased her as their dream…
One of the of six of Tuck's early "Native Types of India" postcard series. Aquarettes were likely based on watercolors, and the artist could have been G.E. McCulloch, known for other postcards of India.
This was the postcard M.V. Dhurandhar chose to send to E. Greenwood, his teacher at the J.J. School of Art, after he had retired in England, suggesting that it was one of his favorites among the seventy or so depictions of types and people emerging…
A very early postcard of nautch or dancing women, shown here in a classical post, one hand on hip, the other raised, sometimes called "in attitude," on postcards.
