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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Johnson Collection Subject Animals

51. Johnson 67,9

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 67,9
Title:
A keeper with a pair of deer
Scope & Content:
A keeper with a pair of deer. Mughal, c.1610. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 7 in Persian inventory note. Gouache; flowers in foreground repainted; undecorated borders sprinkled with gold. 138 by 92 mm; page 413 by 280 mm. Reproduced: Pinder-Wilson (1976), no.134. T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 Item

52. Johnson 11,12

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 11,12
Title:
A girl chasing a cat
Scope & Content:
A girl chasing a cat. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Deccan, c.1680. Tinted drawing with gold; on an album leaf with coloured borders decorated with floral designs in colours and gold. 156 by 104 mm; page 317 by 215 mm. Reverse: a floral trellis design. A girl chases a white ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1680
Extent:
1 Item

53. Johnson 14,11v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 14,11v
Title:
A runaway buffalo chased by its keeper
Scope & Content:
Runaway buffalo. Deccan, c.1700. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Coloured drawing; on an album leaf with red border and blue margin. 78 by 155 mm; page 351 by 230 mm. Reverse: a painting of an angelic figure enthroned. A man sprints alongside a charging water buffalo and tries...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 Item

54. Johnson 18,11

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 18,11
Title:
A Mughal nobleman riding a dappled horse
Scope & Content:
A Mughal nobleman riding a dappled horse. Mughal, c.1620-30. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed on the background in Persian (in the same unreliable hand as J.16,1 and J.64,40): ‘kar-i usta[d] modi’ (the work of Ustad Modi); Persian inventory note (not numbered). Gouache ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1620-1630
Extent:
1 Item

55. Johnson 22,11v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 22,11v
Title:
Mulla Dopiyazah on his old nag
Scope & Content:
Mulla Dopiyazah. Deccan, c.1700-1720. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache; on the reverse of an album leaf with four drawings of girls. 185 by 113 mm; page 361 by 231 mm. Mulla Dopiyazah dressed in a white jama and bulbous turban, rides an emaciated stallion while a white d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1700-1720
Extent:
1 Item

56. Johnson 25,13

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 25,13
Title:
Aurangzeb on horseback
Scope & Content:
Aurangzeb on horseback. Deccan, c.1680. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed on sky in Persian: ‘shabih-i ‘alamgir shah’ (a likeness of ‘Alamgir Shah); numbered 46 in Persian inventory note. Originally a drawing with some gold and colouring; a later Deccani artist has colou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1680
Extent:
1 Item

57. Johnson 25,14

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 25,14
Title:
A mulla, with two partridges below
Scope & Content:
A mulla with two partridges. Bijapur, c.1620. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 22 in Persian inventory note (repeated on slip of paper on reverse). Gouache with gold; on an album page with gold-ruled borders and plain margin. 150 by 75 mm; page 303 by 196 mm. Reproduce...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1620
Extent:
1 Item

58. Johnson 27,19

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 27,19
Title:
The jackals watch the dismounted camel-rider, from an 'Iyar-i Danish ms.
Scope & Content:
An illustration from the ‘‘Iyar-i Danish.’ Commissioned by Richard Johnson, Lucknow, c.1780-82. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Gouache with gold; on an album page with gold and plain borders. 180 by 118 mm; page 346 by 215 mm. A man dismounted from his camel kneels at the foot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1782
Extent:
1 Item

59. Johnson 36,13v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 36,13v
Title:
Tree with orange and green parrots
Scope & Content:
Reverse: six orange and green parrots are perched in and alighting around a fruiting tree with Harivallabha’s Hindi verses written on their bodies; the Persian identification is written on an enlarged fruit in the centre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

60. Johnson 36,14v

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 36,14v
Title:
Shrub with sunbirds
Scope & Content:
Reverse: six sunbirds are perched in and alighting around a fruiting shrub with Harivallabha’s Hindi verses written on their bodies; the Persian identification is written on an enlarged fruit in the centre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item