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# Painting

Opaque watercolour painting of a blacksmith squatting on the ground, his shawl thrown on the ground behind him. He holds a hatchet in one hand and in the other, using tongs, a piece of incandescent iron which an attendant is flattening with a hammer. A second attendant looks after the billows.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1750–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-43](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-43) · Pramāṇa
