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1. Johnson 11,5

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 11,5
Title:
A girl by a stream
Scope & Content:
A girl in a landscape. Deccan, c.1680. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache with gold; on an album leaf with inner green border decorated with gold and silver, the margin with flower-heads. 159 by 79 mm; page 318 by 215 mm. Reverse: a floral trellis design. A girl sits by a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1680
Extent:
1 Item

2. Johnson 19,3

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 19,3
Title:
An ascetic outside a cave
Scope & Content:
An ascetic outside a cave. Oudh, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 31 in Persian inventory note. Gouache; on an album page with a blue border decorated with gold arabesques and an outer gilt-sprinkled margin. 159 by 126 mm; page 400 by 262 mm. An aged ascetic...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

3. Johnson 26,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 26,1
Title:
A young man digging by a stream.. Artist(s): Muhammadi, style of (c.1590-1600)
Scope & Content:
Tinted drawing of a young man digging by a stream. Signed ‘mashq i Muhammadi.’ If the signature be accepted, and it seems very doubtful, this must be later than other known works of the artist. The drawing already displays the rather calligraphic line associated with the Isfahan style. Qazw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1590-1600
Extent:
1 Item

4. Johnson 27,3

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 27,3
Title:
Prince visiting hermit in a landscape
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1595
Extent:
1 Item

5. Johnson 27,8

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 27,8
Title:
A prince visiting a hermit at his cave dwelling
Scope & Content:
A prince visiting a hermit at his cave dwelling. Mughal, c.1600. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Persian inventory note on slip on paper above (not numbered). Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache with gold; a fragment of an illustration from a manuscript; on an ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 Item

6. Johnson 36,8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 36,8v
Title:
A building near a lake
Scope & Content:
Reverse: Harivallabha’s Hindi verses are written on the near and far walls of a building near a lotus lake; the Persian identification is written on the wall of a central water-pavilion.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

7. Johnson 36,9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 36,9v
Title:
Tank with lotuses and cranes
Scope & Content:
Reverse: a tank has white lotus flowers growing in it. Eight grey cranes are perched on the marble surround with Harivallabha’s Hindi verses written on their bodies; the Persian identification is written on an enlarged lotus bloom in the centre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

8. Johnson 55,6

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 55,6
Title:
Servants and courtiers in a landscape
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1600
Extent:
1 Item

9. Johnson 6,10

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 6,10
Title:
A dervish seated in a landscape, the foreground coloured in at a later date.
Scope & Content:
Tinted drawing: a dervish seated in a landscape, the foreground coloured in at a later date. Good quality drawing with very angular drapery. Isfahan style: c.1630. 15.5 by 8.5 cm (page 41.5 by 29.5 cm). Decorated frame of gold scrolls on dark blue; gold flecked margins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1630
Extent:
1 Item

10. Johnson 67,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 67,1
Title:
Locust in landscape
Scope & Content:
A locust in a landscape. Mughal, c.1600. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache; mounted above a study of a butterfly, on an album page; gold and gilt-sprinkled borders. 115 by 88 mm; page 415 by 287 mm. Seal of E.I.C. Library. Reproduced: Welch (1976), no.12; Losty and Leach...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 Item

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