Screen around the cenotaphs in the Taj Mahal, Agra
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The screen round the cenotaphs in the Taj Mahal, Agra. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820. Inscribed on back in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i majhir i raudah i munauwarah i Mumtaz Mahall wa-hadrat Shahjahan badshah i ghazi andarun- i raudah i mutahharah’ (Picture of the enclosure of the illust...
Entrance gateway to the Taj Mahal, Agra, with the mausoleum in the background. Water-colour; 15.5 by 25.25 ins. Water-mark of 1816. Purchased 27 September 1906.
The Taj Mahal, Agra, and the entrance gardens with trees, cypresses and flower beds; a gardener with a basket of greenery on his head in the foreground. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820. Water-colour; 22 by 27.25 ins. Narrow Indian ink border between double rules. 1816 water-mark. Purchase...
The Shwehmawdaw Pagoda, Pegu, Burma. Probably by an Indian artist in Calcutta, c.1800. Inscribed: ‘Choemadoo, the Great Temple at Pegue. See Syme’s Ava, p.186. Height 361’; on back a note written by Sotheby’s in 1888. Water-colour; 18 by 23 ins. Pink border with Indian ink rules. Purchase...