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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Johnson Collection

481. Johnson 4,10

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 4,10
Title:
A Mughal nobleman
Scope & Content:
A Mughal nobleman. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 15 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; unfinished; on an album page with inner blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 163 by 95 mm; page 415 by 292 mm. A Mughal nobleman, facing left, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

482. Johnson 4,11

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 4,11
Title:
A Mughal nobleman
Scope & Content:
A Mughal nobleman. Mughal, c.1700. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 52 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; the figure has been excised, the field and sky being Lucknow additions, c.1780; on an album page with inner blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 Item

483. Johnson 41,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 41,1
Title:
Radha and Krishna
Scope & Content:
Radha and Krishna. Inscribed above in Persian: ‘ram’ (an inaccurate identification of Krishna as Rama). 200 by 118 mm, 198 by 126 mm and 197 by 120 mm; page 232 by 365 mm. (a) Radha is seated on a bed talking with Krishna; musicians are in the foreground; (b) Radha is leading Krishna to a bow...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

484. Johnson 41,1-8

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 41,1-8
Title:
J.41,1-8 Eight pages of tracings taken from various sources. Commissioned by Richard Johnson, Lucknow, c.1780-82. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchas ...
Scope & Content:
J.41,1-8 Eight pages of tracings taken from various sources. Commissioned by Richard Johnson, Lucknow, c.1780-82. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Drawings, adjacent on single sheets; traces of pouncing indicate that the drawings were taken from ‘charbas.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
8 items

485. Johnson 4,12

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 4,12
Title:
A middle-aged Mughal nobleman
Scope & Content:
A middle-aged Mughal nobleman. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 51 in Persian inventory note. Gouache; the figure uncoloured; on an album page with inner blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 136 by 64 mm; page 415 by 292 mm. A Mughal nobleman o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

486. Johnson 41,2

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 41,2
Title:
Krishna and four female types
Scope & Content:
Krishna and four female types. Inscribed with identifications in Persian of the female types: ‘padmini, chitrini, shankhini, hastini.’ 182 by 181 mm and 200 by 178 mm; page 359 by 228 mm. (a) Krishna holds a lotus over his shoulder as he leaves Radha’s house; three men are seated in the foreg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

487. Johnson 4,13

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 4,13
Title:
Raja Rai Singh
Scope & Content:
A raja. Mughal, c.1640-60. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed on grass in Persian: ‘Rajah Rai Singh’; numbered 25 in Persian inventory note. Drawing; the grass and sky coloured at Lucknow, c.1780; on an album page with inner blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1640-1660
Extent:
1 Item

488. Johnson 41,3

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 41,3
Title:
Krishna received by a messenger
Scope & Content:
Krishna received by a messenger. Inscribed above in Persian: ‘kishan’ (Krishna). 201 by 368 mm; page 228 by 368 mm. Krishna stands talking to a messenger outside a bed-chamber; on the right Krishna sits alone in an upper chamber while the messenger talks with Radha in a chamber beneath.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

489. Johnson 4,14

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 4,14
Title:
A Mughal nobleman
Scope & Content:
An eighteenth-century Mughal nobleman. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 17 in Persian inventory note. Gouache; on an album page with inner blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 155 by 75 mm; page 415 by 292 mm. A Mughal nobleman of the eighteent...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

490. Johnson 41,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 41,4
Title:
Radha sending a messenger
Scope & Content:
Radha sending a messenger. Inscribed above in Persian:’ ram’ (an inaccurate identification of Krishna as Rama). 207 by 364 mm; page 230 by 368 mm. (a) Radha despatches her messenger to Krishna; (b) the messenger kneels before Krishna in a garden chamber; (c) the messenger returns to Radha wit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item