Sri Lanka, Boursse, Esaias, Two labourers, Outside, near a sloping wall of cliffs, perhaps the corner of a fortress wall, two young men stand. The man on the left wears a double-folded hip-dress (veshti, lungi) that reaches to the knees; a shawl (chadar) hangs over his right shoulder and is also wrapped around his waist and tied at the waist. The man on the right leans with his back against the sloping wall. He has drawn up his left leg with his foot against the wall and his knee forward. He wears a hip-dress (veshti, lungi) that reaches to the knee, and a cloth (chadar) around his left shoulder. Both men come from South India and have been put to work in Colombo during reconstruction. Sheet 55 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets., sketchbook sheet, drawings, height 148 mm, width 196 mm, 1631 - 1672, draughtsman, draftsman, 1662 - 1662, third quarter 17th century, paper, papier, ink, inkt, brush, Borstel