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Add Or 4242
- Record Id:
- 032-003264044
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264044
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0001ed
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4242
- Title:
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Yusuf 'Adil Shah of Bijapur (1509-11) enthroned with the next four monarchs of Bijapur, after a lost Bijapuri original
- Scope & Content:
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Yusuf ‘Adil Shah of Bijapur (1509-11) enthroned with the next four monarchs of Bijapur, being handed the key of royal authority by a Persian figure, his right foot upon a circular globe(?); to his right, and slightly smaller and below him, are kneeling Ismail (d.1534) and Ibrahim I (d.1557), and likewise to his left are ‘Ali I (d.1579) and Ibrahim II (d.1626). Attendants behind carry parasols above the sultans, each with a gold Persian inscription but with no obvious meaning.
By a Deccani artist, c.1750, after a lost Bijapuri original of c.1610.
Inscribed on the covering sheet in Persian: ‘Majlis-i ‘Adil Shah badshah ma‘ah nazdikan’ (assembly of King ‘Adil Shah with his relatives); and on the reverse: ‘No. 20’.
Opaque water-colour heightened with gold; size of miniature 180 by 272 mm; mounted on a deep blue album page splashed with gold, 310 by 442 mm.
Purchased 1985.
Note: A larger version of this scene including all the Sultans of Bijapur up to the last one Sikandar (reg. 1672-86) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (M. Zebrowski, ‘Deccani Painting’, pl.XVII, and S.C. Welch, ‘India’, no. 208).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264044
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264044
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Deccani style
South Indian style - Start Date:
- 1749
- End Date:
- 1751
- Date Range:
- c 1750
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Portraits