Tanjore dancing girl

Among the first series of postcards printed in India by The Ravi Varma Press, this lithograph by the German artist at the Press, Paul Gerhardt, shows how in these very early days, placing the title was not quite fixed by convention, It could easily be, as in this case, placed at an angle in parallel with the woman's arm. Note too how nicely Gerhardt manages to use a vanishing background to give the setting three-dimensionality.