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431. Add Or 2744-2767

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Add Or 2744-2767
Title:
Add.Or.2744-2767 Twenty-four paintings from a ‘ragamala’ series, arranged according to an otherwise unrecorded system totalling forty-two illustration ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.2744-2767 Twenty-four paintings from a ‘ragamala’ series, arranged according to an otherwise unrecorded system totalling forty-two illustrations. Murshidabad, c.1790. Formerly Album 68; circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Inscribed in nagari on mauve panels at top with identifica...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1789-1791
Extent:
24 items

432. Add Or 2768

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Add Or 2768
Title:
Sher Shah, Afghan emperor of Delhi
Scope & Content:
Sher Shah, Afghan emperor of Delhi (1540-45). Mughal, c.1740. Formerly Album 69, no.1; purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914, together with Add.Or.2769-2771. Gouache with gold; mounted with decorated blue border. 285 by 185 mm; page 315 by 217 mm. Sher Shah, holding a sword across ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 Item

433. Add Or 2769

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Add Or 2769
Title:
Muhammad Shah at a window. Artist(s): Chitarman (fl. 1720-30), attributed to
Scope & Content:
Muhammad Shah (1719-48) at a window. Style of Chitarman, Mughal, c.1720-30. Formerly Album 69, no.2; purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914, together with Add.Or.2768, 2770-2771. Inscribed on reverse in Persian: ‘tasvir-i hazrat furozish-i islam-gah muhammad shah padshah’ (picture of ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1720-1730
Extent:
1 Item

434. Add Or 2770

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Add Or 2770
Title:
Muhammad Adil Shah at a window. Artist(s): Muhammad Khan (Bijapur, fl. c.1630-50)
Scope & Content:
Muhammad ‘Adil Shah II at a window. By Muhammad Khan, Bijapur, c.1640. Formerly Album 69, no.3, purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914. Inscribed on border and reverse in Persian: ‘tasvir-i sultan muhammad ‘adil shah’ (picture of Sultan Muhammad ‘Adil Shah); faint inscription on rever...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1640
Extent:
1 Item

435. Add Or 2771

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2771
Title:
A lady with a parrot. Artist(s): Aqil Khan (fl. 1760), style of
Scope & Content:
A lady with a parrot. Style of ‘Aqil Khan, Mughal, c.1760. Formerly Album 69, no.4; purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914, together with Add.Or.2768, 2770-2771. Inscribed on border in Persian: ‘zinat al-nisa dukhtar-i ‘alamgir badshah’ (Zinat al-Nisa, daughter of the emperor ‘Alamgir...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

436. Add Or 2772

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Add Or 2772
Title:
Sa'adat 'Ali Khan, Nawab of Oudh (1798-1814)
Scope & Content:
Sa‘adat ‘Ali Khan, Nawab of Oudh (1798-1814). Oudh, c.1800. Formerly Album 69, no.5; purchased 16 December 1914. 198 by 145 mm; page 313 by 225 mm. Sa‘adat ‘Ali Khan is seated on an open terrace reading from a book placed on a cushion before him, apparently giving instructions to a bearded f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

437. Add Or 2773

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2773
Title:
Rama restores Ahalya to life
Scope & Content:
Rama restores Ahalya to life. Punjab Plains, Kangra style, c.1880. Formerly Album 69, no.6. Inscribed on cover-paper with four lines of descriptive Sanskrit verses. Gouache with gold; decorated dark blue and pink borders. 174 by 230 mm; with border 232 by 285 mm. An illustration to an epis...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

438. Add Or 2774

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2774
Title:
Babur and Humayun enthroned
Scope & Content:
Babur and Humayun enthroned. Delhi, c.1810. Formerly Album 69, no.7; acquired 21 June 1904. Inscribed in Persian: ‘Babur padshah’ and ‘Humayun padshah.’ Drawing; blue border. 170 by 205 mm; page 203 by 251 mm. The two emperors sit on separate thrones, each with a little canopy, Babur on th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

439. Add Or 2775

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2775
Title:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s Kitab-i Nauras, signed Jug.
Scope & Content:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s ‘Kitab-i Nauras’, signed ‘Jug’. Inscribed on reverse in nasta‘liq: ‘‘abd al-latif’, and: ‘This is the writing of Ibrahim Jugudguroo. This was purchased from the grandson of Mohamed Ali Moonshee ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 Item

440. Add Or 2776-2783

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2776-2783
Title:
Add.Or.2776-2783 Eight leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Razmnama.’ Mughal, c.1598. Purchased 1921. Literature: Maggs Brothers, catalogue 452 (1924), n ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.2776-2783 Eight leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Razmnama.’ Mughal, c.1598. Purchased 1921. Literature: Maggs Brothers, catalogue 452 (1924), no.252; Stchoukine (1929), pl.lxxiii; Cohn-Weiner (1938 and 1958); Ashton (1950), no.654; Meredith-Owens (1956); Welch (1959), 137-38, fig. 6; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1598-1598
Extent:
8 items

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