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Add Or 4474

Record Id:

032-003264073

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003264073

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add Or 4474

Title:

William Fraser (1784-1835)

Scope & Content:

Portrait of William Fraser (1784-1835), half-length, seated in a chair, holding the snake of a hookah in his left hand and a handkerchief in his right.

By a Delhi artist, c.1820-25.

Opaque water-colour with gold, within an oval 105 by 87 mm, within a rectangular frame with gold flowering creepers; and laid down on a gold sprinkled green album page 36.5 by 25 cm. Various effaced inscriptions and a seal in Persian on the reverse suggest the painting was once in a collection in Rajasthan.

Purchased 1989.

Note: Fraser wears an orange gown open at the front and trimmed with fur on edges and shoulders. His whiskers are more fully developed than in his portrait of 1815 (Falk and Archer, ‘India Revealed’, fig.11), but he does not appear so old as in a later portrait of about 1830 (‘ibid.,’ fig.15). Fraser reached Indian in 1802, and after study at the College of Fort William he was appointed Assistant to the Resident at Delhi, Archibald Seton. He remained in Delhi until he was murdered in 1835 (see Add.Or.4656 below).

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Fraser Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003264073

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003264073

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

Delhi style

Start Date:

1820

End Date:

1825

Date Range:

1820-1825

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: opaque watercolour

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Fraser, William, 1784-1835

Subjects:

Foreigners
Portraits