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891. Johnson 5,3

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 5,3
Title:
Designs for cards for a game of the ganjifa type
Scope & Content:
Designs for cards for a game of the ganjifa type. Commissioned by Richard Johnson, Lucknow, c.1780-82. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed with the titles of the suits in Persian characters: ‘taj’ (crown)’, sefid’ (white), ‘shamshir’ (sword), ‘ghulam’ (slave),’ chanak’ (har...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

892. Johnson 5,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 5,4
Title:
Designs for cards for a game of the ganjifa type
Scope & Content:
Designs for cards for a game of the ganjifa type. Commissioned by Richard Johnson, Lucknow, c.1780-82. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed in red with the titles of the suits in Persian characters, each prefixed with the word ‘bazi’ (play):’ taj’ (crown), ‘qimash’ (furnishi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

893. Johnson 7,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 7,4
Title:
Sufi dervishes exercising in a garden
Scope & Content:
Sufi dervishes exercising in a garden. Mughal, c.1650-60. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 49 in Persian inventory note. Drawing with colour and gold; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled outer margin. 210 by 106 mm; page 415 by 298 mm. T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1650-1660
Extent:
1 Item

894. Johnson 8,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 8,1
Title:
Prince watching bathers in a tank with numerous spectators of both sexes
Scope & Content:
Miniaturepainting: left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece to the poems of Sa‘di. Prince watching bathers in a tank, with numerous spectators of both sexes. Shiraz style, about c.1575. 13 by 7.5 cm (page 38.5 by 23.5 cm). The miniature is set in a splendid page of early sixteenth-centur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1575
Extent:
1 Item

895. Johnson 15,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 15,1
Title:
Vilavali Ragini . Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90), style of
Scope & Content:
Vilavali Ragini. Style of Bahadur Singh, Lucknow, c.1775 Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 1 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled margin. 157 by 121 mm; page 414 by 294 mm. A lady is sitting on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1775
Extent:
1 Item

896. Johnson 17,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 17,4
Title:
Ramakali Ragini. Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90), style of
Scope & Content:
Ramakali Ragini. Style of Bahadur Singh, Lucknow, c.1775. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 7 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled margin. 169 by 121 mm; page 406 by 284 mm. A penitent lover kn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1775
Extent:
1 Item

897. Johnson 23,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 23,4
Title:
'Aziz Khan Chaghata. Artist(s): Chhajmal (c.1690)
Scope & Content:
‘Aziz Khan Chaghata. Attributed to Chhajmal. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed above in Persian: ‘tasvir-i sih o panj, salagi navab sahib vaqilah ‘aziz’ ‘khan bahadur chagta’ (picture thirty-five, the devotee Nawab Sahib Waqilah ‘Aziz Khan Bahadur Chaghata); numbered 49 i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 Item

898. Johnson 28,5

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,5
Title:
A learned discussion before an iwan set against a grey hillside
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: a learned discussion before an ‘iwan’ set against a grey hillside. This seems to be by the same hand as J.27, 12 (and perhaps J.27, 13). Khurasan style: c.1575. 20.5 by 13 cm (page 37 by 24.5 cm). Illuminated frame. Margins with designs of Khusraw spying Shirin bathing, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1575
Extent:
1 Item

899. Johnson 27,14

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 27,14
Title:
Young prince visiting a hermit in a rocky cave
Scope & Content:
Tinted drawing: a young prince visiting a hermit in a rocky cave. Two of the prince's attendants are seated in the foreground, a jug and basin between them. This may be the same hand as Nushirwan and the owls (J.27, 12). Khurasan style: c.1575. 14.5 by 6.5 cm (page 37 by 24.5 cm). Illuminat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1575
Extent:
1 Item

900. Johnson 51,17

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 51,17
Title:
Kamadeva. Artist(s): Ghulam Reza (fl.1780-1782) style of
Scope & Content:
Kamadeva. Style of Ghulam Reza, Lucknow, c.1780. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Coloured drawing with gold. 270 by 225 mm. Kamadeva is seated on a plinth by a tree, holding a bow strung with a line of black bees, and the arrows with flowery shafts. A girl and her companion kn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item