A Hill woman from Ladakh, cooking her food, 1893.

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right ‘G E Burrard/ 1893’, by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1893.

Sitting on the ground outside a building, she makes chapatis.

Gertrude Ellen Burrard accompanied her husband Sidney Burrard, an Indian Army Officer, around the Indian subcontinent during his time as Superintendent on the Trigonometrical Survey of India. As an amateur artist, she recorded the people and places that she encountered and exhibited her paintings for many years in India.