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'Buffalos of Bhownuggar. Kattiwah. India. Febr. 1879'

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Oil painting on paper by Marianne North depicting buffalos of Bhavnagar, dated 1879. Marianne North visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a happy life' of 1892, she wrote,"There were some most extraordinary buffaloes, with overhanging foreheads, which nearly hid their eyes, and low curling horns. They were only to be found in Bhaunagar's stable, and were kept for milking."
Title: 'Buffalos of Bhownuggar. Kattiwah. India. Febr. 1879'
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Oil painting on paper by Marianne North depicting buffalos of Bhavnagar, dated 1879.
Marianne North visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.
In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a happy life' of 1892, she wrote,"There were some most extraordinary buffaloes, with overhanging foreheads, which nearly hid their eyes, and low curling horns.
They were only to be found in Bhaunagar's stable, and were kept for milking.
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