Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.16

c19.16

*Painting* They refer, no doubt, to ordinary pigment painting, as dye-painting was not, at any rate in the eighteenth century, a Sinhalese craft. I have seen no drawings on paper of Sinhalese paper, which was very coarse and rough.* Such old drawings or paper ms. as have been preserved are found to be on Dutch paper, or at a later time on English paper. No doubt paper of Indian or Sinhalese manufacture was used at an earlier period.