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1. Johnson 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28
Title:
Total of 20 leaves separately mounted of which 18 are Persian. The Persian items are mostly from a single album, probably of Bukhara origin, which could have found its way to the Deccan.
Scope & Content:
Total of 20 leaves separately mounted of which 18 are Persian. The Persian items are mostly from a single album, probably of Bukhara origin, which could have found its way to the Deccan. The two Indian pictures are not apparently included in the album on any logical basis.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

2. Johnson 28,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,1
Title:
A seated dervish
Scope & Content:
A seated dervish. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 7 in Persian inventory note. Tinted drawing; background and frame completed in gouache perhaps rather later than the drawing; on an album page with plain borders. 73 by 73 mm; page 367 by 244 mm. A der...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1782
Extent:
1 Item

3. Johnson 28,12

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,12
Title:
Young prince seated before a princess writing
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: young prince seated before a princess who writes on a paper; writing-table with blue and white porcelain ink-pot in the foreground. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 11 by 9.5 cm (page 36.5 by 24.5 cm). Decorated frame; couplet of verse above and below the mi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

4. Johnson 28,2

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,2
Title:
Mounted prince with a falcon, preceded by a running footman
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: young mounted prince with falcon on his wrist preceded by a running footman. Plain background with conventional flowers in gold. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 14 by 8.5 cm (page 37 by 23.5 cm). Illuminated upper corners. Illuminated frame incorporating ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

5. Johnson 28,9

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,9
Title:
A drunken party in a courtyard by night
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: moonlight scene in a courtyard with an ‘iwan:’ a bearded man lying asleep (drunk?) surrounded by young men with bottles and cups. In the courtyard a led horse, a man with a cresset, and a bearded man registering astonishment. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

6. Johnson 28,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,4
Title:
A discussion in a courtyard before an iwan
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: a discussion in a courtyard before an ‘iwan.’ Rather rubbed in the middle. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 16.5 by 9 cm (page 37 by 24.5 cm). Decorated frame and margins with inlaid panels. On reverse, two columns of verse. Evidently from the same MS and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

7. Johnson 28,13

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,13
Title:
A girl seated on a morha beneath a tree
Scope & Content:
A girl seated on a morha beneath a tree. Mughal, c.1740. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 10 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; on an album leaf with plain and blue borders decorated in gold with floral arabesques. 183 by 116 mm; page 361 by 240 mm. Reverse:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 Item

8. Johnson 28,18

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,18
Title:
Yusuf put ashore after bathing in the Nile
Scope & Content:
Miniaturepainting illustrating the ‘Yusuf u Zulaykha’ of Jami: Yusuf put ashore after bathing in the Nile; behind, a ship full of men, two of them armoured. Some flaking and rubbing: silver blackened. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 20 by 11cm (page 37 by 23.5 cm). A couplet ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

9. Johnson 28,19

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,19
Title:
Zulaykha's women overcome by the beauty of Yusuf
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting illustrating the ‘Yusuf u Zulaykha’ of Jami:: Zulaykha's ladies overcome by the beauty of Yusuf. Scene in a garden with a large ‘iwan’ against a golden hillside. Architectural details are very finely executed, and the figures livelier than usual in this sort of work. Bukhar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1600
Extent:
1 Item

10. Johnson 28,20

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,20
Title:
Zulaykha's women overcome by the beauty of Yusuf
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting illustrating the ‘Yusuf u Zulaykha’ of Jami: Zulaykha's ladies overcome by the beauty of Yusuf. A smaller and more modest version of J.28, 19. Several figures and groups obviously come from the same poncifs. Bukhara style: second half of sixteenth century. 18 by11 cm (page...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1600
Extent:
1 Item