Nob Kishen's Nautch Party

Watercolour illustration showing a nautch party at which Europeans cavort on chairs, with dancing girls in the background. The assorted chairs depicted include one with the back-looped arms later associated with the courts of the Sikhs. This illustration to the poem, Tom Raw, the Griffin, shows Tom attending a party where Nawab Kishan, a rich Hindu merchant, is entertaining a fashionable party of Europeans to a nautch performance.