An artistic process, fashionable in early 19th-cent. England, employing or imitating an oriental style in which pictures are produced on thin paper (or occasionally silk) using thick body colour, little or no shading, and no background; a painting of this nature.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in The Times.
Definition of Poona painting in US English:
Poona painting
noun
An artistic process, fashionable in early 19th-cent. England, employing or imitating an oriental style in which pictures are produced on thin paper (or occasionally silk) using thick body colour, little or no shading, and no background; a painting of this nature.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in The Times.