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Add Or 4299
- Record Id:
- 032-003264050
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264050
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0001f3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100146889219.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4299
- Title:
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The Svarga Vilasa (Celestial Pavilion) or Throne-room of the palace of Tirumala Nayak (1623-59) at Madurai
- Scope & Content:
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The Svarga Vilasa (Celestial Pavilion) or Throne-room of the palace of Tirumala Nayak (1623-59) at Madurai, the domed octagonal space surrounded by arcades being used as a court room, the judge on a dais under a punkah and canopy on the right, with clerks and plaintiffs ranged before him.
By a Madurai artist, c.1850.
Inscribed in pencil on the reverse: ‘The great Dome of Trumal Naig’s Palace at Madura used as the Court House of the Civil and Session Judge. By a Native Artist.’
Water-colour; 292 by 424 mm.
Purchased 1986.
Note: For the palace, see Add.Or.3187. The judge in this picture is C.W. Baynes, District Judge of Madura 1846-55, who both commissioned paintings from Madurai artists and also collected other schools.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264050
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264050
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100146889219.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- South India/Madurai style
South Indian style - Start Date:
- 1849
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)