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Add Or 948
- Record Id:
- 032-003263676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263676
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00007d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100136944296.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 948
- Title:
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The Red Fort, Delhi
- Scope & Content:
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The Red Fort, Delhi.
Lucknow, c.1780-90.
Purchased June 1959.
Numbered 529 in Persian numerals on reverse.
Gouache with gold; black border.
292 by 415 mm; page 325 by 445 mm.
A bird’s-eye view of the Red Fort at Delhi from the east, showing an emperor, probably Shah ‘Alam (1759-1806) entering the Diwan~i-Khas on the right. The Rang Mahal is on the left, the Khwabgah Jharoka in the centre, and the Pearl Mosque on the extreme right.
Note: Similar pictures are in the collection of the Baroda Museum (‘see’ Goetz (1952); M. Archer (1969), figs 17 and 18), and an almost identical view is in the Royal Ontario Museum, 924.12.143 (illustrated in Beach (1979), no.31). Three bird’s-eye views of gardens and palaces (formerly British Library Add.15969, now in the British Museum) were given by Col. Antoine Polier to Ozias Humphry at Lucknow on 11 May 1786.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263676
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263676
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100136944296.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Lucknow style
- Start Date:
- 1780
- End Date:
- 1790
- Date Range:
- 1780-1790
- 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), 343
- Exhibitions:
- Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library, 9 November 2012 - 2 April 2013
National Jubilee Exhibition - VOC 1602-2002, Scheepvaartmuseum, Netherlands, March 2002 - October 2002 - Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)