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Add Or 3849
- Record Id:
- 032-003263985
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263985
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0001b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3849
- Title:
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Chand Bibi hawking
- Scope & Content:
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Chand Bibi hawking.
Hyderabad, c.1800.
Purchased June 1976.
Inscribed on reverse in Persian: ‘tasvir-i Chand bibi’ (portrait of Chand Bibi).
Gouache with gold.
156 by 201 mm.
Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.7.
Chand Bibi (d.1599, wife of ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah I of Bijapur) is out hawking on a white horse, moving across a field in the direction of four flying cranes. A hawk is about to be released from her right hand. A girl attendant stands on the left with a second bird.
Note: From the collection of Sir Henry Russell (see Add.Or.1912-1947 and 3846).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Russell Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263985
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263985
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Deccani style
Deccani/Hyderabad style
South Indian style - Start Date:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1801
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- 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), 433
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- shikar
sports and pastimes