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Add Or 483
- Record Id:
- 032-003263633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263633
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000052
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100136944258.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 483
- Title:
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A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims
- Scope & Content:
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A scene at a shrine.
Murshidabad, c.1760.
Purchased January 1957.
Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold.
253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm.
Reproduced: Welch (1963), no.84; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 23.
A shrine to Siva, flying a red banner from the roof pinnacle, is set in a landscape beside a pool in which people bathe. Pilgrims arrive, mostly on foot, others on an elephant, a camel and in a palanquin; the camp of a wealthy visitor is pitched on the left. (For a miniature of a festival taking place at the same shrine, ‘see’ Sotheby, 9 October 1978, lot 223.).
Published: Bayly, C.A. (ed), 'The Raj, India and the British 1600-1947', National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1991, no 287, p. 224-225
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263633
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263633
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100136944258.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Bengal style
Eastern India style
Murshidabad style - Start Date:
- 1759
- End Date:
- 1761
- Date Range:
- c 1760
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 374i
- Exhibitions:
- The Raj: India and the British, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)