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DescriptionMembers of a Nair brigade.jpg
English: This picture shows part of a Nair brigade in the service of the British, as painted by the Swiss artist Paul Aimé Vallouy (1832–1899) and part of a series of three charcoal and watercolour drawings made in 1855. The other two drawings can be found here.
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Part of a Nair brigade in the service of the British, painted by the Swiss artist Paul Aimé Vallouy (1832–1899), part of a series of three charcoal and watercolour drawings made in 1855