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Add Or 486
- Record Id:
- 032-003263636
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263636
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000055
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100146890380.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 486
- Title:
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Golden Temple, Amritsar
- Scope & Content:
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The Golden Temple, Amritsar (Punjab).
By an Amritsar artist, c.1860.
Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i sri darbar sahib jiv waqi‘ah i shahr i Amritsar -jiv parastish-gah i Sikhan’ (Picture of the Holy Sikh Temple situated in the city of Amritsar; the holy worshipping place of the Sikhs); on back in English: ‘Sent to Exhibition of 1862. Bengal Invoice No.5133. No.1659’; and on a label: ‘No.51. View of the Holy Sikh Temple (Durbar Saheb) at Umritsur. Drawn at Umritsur under the direction of Lalla Chumba Mull.’
Water-mark of 1854. Water-colour; 10.25 by 16.5 ins.
Deposited c.1862.
Note: Although this drawing appears to have been sent to England for showing at the international Exhibition, 1862, it was apparently not exhibited or included in the catalogue (see J. Forbes Watson, ‘The International exhibition of 1862,’ London, 1862).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263636
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263636
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100146890380.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Punjab style
- Start Date:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1861
- Date Range:
- c 1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, Company drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1972), 186
- Exhibitions:
- Khalsa: Heritage of the Sikhs, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 27 February 1999 - 25 April 1999
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)