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Add Or 2769
- Record Id:
- 032-003263832
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000119
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2769
- Title:
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Muhammad Shah at a window. Artist(s): Chitarman (fl. 1720-30), attributed to
- Scope & Content:
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Muhammad Shah (1719-48) at a window.
Style of Chitarman, Mughal, c.1720-30.
Formerly Album 69, no.2; purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914, together with Add.Or.2768, 2770-2771.
Inscribed on reverse in Persian: ‘tasvir-i hazrat furozish-i islam-gah muhammad shah padshah’ (picture of his majesty, the splendour of the seat of Islam, Muhammad Shah Emperor).
Gouache with gold; gold and blue borders.
168 by 118 mm; page 188 by 135 mm.
The emperor is seated facing right, wearing a white jama and turban with a radiant gold halo, and holding the mouthpiece of a hookah. The background is grey with a rolled-up blind above and white marble surround to the window.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263832
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263832
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/18th century style - Start Date:
- 1720
- End Date:
- 1730
- Date Range:
- 1720-1730
- 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), 161
- Exhibitions:
- Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library, 9 November 2012 - 2 April 2013
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chitarman, fl 1720-1730
Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India, 1719-1748 - Subjects:
- Portraits