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Add Or 4660
- Record Id:
- 032-003264089
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264089
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00021a
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4660
- Title:
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Procession on elephants of the Nawab Muhmmad Yusuf 'Ali of Rampur (ruled 1855-64). By a Delhi artist working in Rampur.
- Scope & Content:
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Procession on elephants of the Nawab Muhammad Yusuf ‘Ali of Rampur (ruled 1855-64), with his family and ministers, escorted from his own encampment by his household troops and by two high-ranking British cavalry officers and a squadron of The Queen’s Own 7th (Light) Dragoons, to the encampment of Lord Canning for the durbar held at Fatehgarh on 15th November 1859.
By a Rampur artist, possibly from Delhi, c.1859.
Inscribed in nasta‘liq at the bottom of the painting with the names corresponding to the numbers by the heads of the seven principal personages on the elephants: ‘1. Navab Muhammad Yusuf ‘Ali Khan Bahadur 2. Navab Kalb ‘Ali Khan Bahadur 3. Muhammad Kazim ‘Ali Khan Bahadur 4. Mir Sial[chand?] 5. Nasim ... Mir 6. Muhammad ‘Ali Bakhsh Khan 7. Shaikh Wajih al-Zaman Khan.’ (The readings of nos.4-6 are dubious as the inscriptions are much rubbed. Presumably the inscriptions were added after Nawab Kalb ‘Ali’s succession in 1864.).
Water-colour heightened with white and gold on paper backed by cloth; 67.5 by 97 cm.
Published: J.P. Losty, ‘Of Far Off Lands and People: Paintings from India 1783-1881’ (London, 1993)
Purchased April 1992.
Note: Nawab Muhammad Yusuf ‘Ali Khan was born in 1815, the eldest of the five sons of Nawab Muhammad Saiyid Khan (reg.1840-55). Next to him in the procession is his eldest son Nawab Muhammad Kalb ‘Ali Khan (reg.1864-87, succeeding at the age of 31), like his father an able administrator and scholar; and next to him the Nawab’s brother Muhammad Kazim ‘Ali Khan, to whom the Nawab entrusted a great part of the administration during the latter portion of his reign. Of the other named personages, Mir Munshi Sialchand was the head of the Nawab’s political office, the Dar al-Insha, Shaikh Wajih al-Zaman was the Nawab’s Vakil, and ‘Ali Bakhsh Khan a ‘tahsildar.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264089
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264089
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Delhi style
- Start Date:
- 1858
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- c 1859
- 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)
- Subjects:
- Events