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1. Add Or 2595, Add Or 2600

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Add Or 2595, Add Or 2600
Title:
Add.Or.2595; Add.Or.2600 2 drawings depicting Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97). By a Murshidabad artist, c.1812. Note: Although acquired by the L ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.2595; Add.Or.2600 2 drawings depicting Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97). By a Murshidabad artist, c.1812. Note: Although acquired by the Library separately, both drawings originally came from a set belonging to Sir George Nugent, Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811-15. His wife was ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1811-1813
Extent:
2 items

2. Add Or 2595

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2595
Title:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula of Oudh (1775-97) celebrating the Muharram festival.
Scope & Content:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula celebrating the Muharram festival at Lucknow. He is seated at night in the Imambara listening to the maulvi reading from the scriptures. The maulvi sits in the centre on a dais beneath a canopy. The Nawab sits below on a rug smoking a hookah, with his sword and shield lyin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1812
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2600
Title:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula seated on a rug smoking a hookah and listening to a party of male musicians.
Scope & Content:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula seated on a rug smoking a hookah and listening to a party of male musicians. He is surrounded by a group of courtiers and attendants. Inscribed on back in English in ink: ‘Lukhnou Nawab Asoofooddoala’; in’ nagari’ characters: ‘Luknau asaf-ud-daula navab.’ Water-colour; 16 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1812
Extent:
1 Item

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