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1. 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

2. Add Or 2595, Add Or 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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

4. Stowe Or 17A

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 17A
Title:
Album of drawings of the Taj Mahal and other Mughal monuments of Agra, commissioned by Lady Nugent.
Scope & Content:
By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black rules. The drawings of details unique to this album tend to run off the page without rules. Another feature unique to this album is th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item