File:Pettua.jpg

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A Pettooa (Indian cargo sailing vessel)
Etchings from the major collections by Francois Balthasar Solvyns, showing life in early colonial Calcutta: "Mounted handcoloured etchings, hand-drawn borders, titles laid on, from Solvyns' celebrated work, "A COLLECTION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COLOURED ETCHINGS : DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND DRESSES OF THE HINDOOS"; Calcutta,1799." (and a few attributed by him to other works)

Source: ebay, Sept.-Nov. 2004
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Source http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/solvyns/solvyns.html
Author Francois Balthasar
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