A lady. Mughal, c.1670. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Tinted drawing, on an album page with coloured borders sprinkled with gold. 63 by 48 mm; page 332 by 229 mm. Reproduced: Bussagli (1966), pl.32; Hambly (1968), fig.19. A lady faces half right, holding a flower and wearing...
Sohni swimming to Mahinval Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 10 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled plain margin. 221 by 147 mm; page 415 by 286 mm. Sohni swims across the riv...
A girl playing a sitar. Mughal, c.1740. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 19 in Persian inventory note. Lightly tinted drawing with gold; mounted with a border of pale yellow paper; grey paper extensions. 175 by 118 mm; page 265 by 185 mm. The girl, facing right, is sho...
Nawab Buzurg Umed Khan (d.1694). Mughal, c.1700. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed beneath in Persian: ‘Buzurg Umed Khan’; numbered 19 in Persian inventory note; on reverse: ‘nawab buzurg umed’ ‘khan, ‘amal-i fath chand’ (Nawab Buzurg Umed Khan, the work of Fath Chand), n...
A youth reading to a poet. Mughal, c.1595. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed on reverse in Persian: ‘padshah akbar’ (the emperor Akbar), which may have referred to an adjacent picture in the original album. Gouache with gold; on an album leaf; two ‘misra‘‘ in ‘nasta‘liq’...
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a nobleman. Bijapur, c.1660-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache with gold; on an album page with inner gold floral border; pink and brick-red borders enclosing two panels of ‘nasta‘liq’ calligraphy making up four lines of verse; plain outer ...
A Mughal courtier. Artist(s): Hunhar (fl. 1740-70), style of
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A Mughal courtier. Style of Hunhar, Lucknow, c.1760. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Tinted drawing; on an album page of which the primary miniature is on the other side; ruled border and margin of plain paper. 204 by 114 mm; page 318 by 192 mm. A Mughal courtier with a ‘katar’...
A prince visiting a hermit in a landscape. Mughal, c.1595. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 8 in Persian inventory note; numbered 27 on border. Gouache with gold; on a 17th-century Mughal album leaf with gilt-decorated borders and a margin decorated in gold with animals ...
A nobleman on a terrace. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 57 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; unfinished; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 159 by 102 mm; page 415 by 286 mm. A nobleman, faci...
Left-hand half of a double-page outdoor court-scene. The usual cooks, grooms and courtiers grouped in a fenced garden through which a stream flows diagonally. Golden hillside behind. Bukhara style: second half of sixteenth century. 23 by 15.5 cm (page 26 by 18 cm). Very slight flaking: fram...