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Add Or 5608
- Record Id:
- 032-003264295
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264295
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0002e8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5608
- Title:
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Purana Puri, a faqir in the position of 'urdhabahus'
- Scope & Content:
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Portrait of the faqir, Purana Puri, with his arms upraised in the position of 'urdhabahus.'
Company school, 18 August 1820.
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 451 x 342 mm
A faqir holding his arms over his head in penance while seated on a wood and leopard skin throne. This portrait of the faqir is based on an original watercolour produced by an unknown artist approximately during the period 1788-1795 for Jonathan Duncan in Benares. Duncan was the British Resident in Benares during this period and later appointed as the governor of Bengal. For an account on the life of Purana Puri, see Jonathan Duncan 'An Account of Two Fakeers, with their portraits,' in Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of the Society, Vol. 5, 1799.
Inscribed:'Prawn Poory a Sunyassy, performing the Penance of Tupussy called vordhbahu(?), he has held up his hands since the year 1752, Traveled all over India and through Tartary to Moscow returning thro. Persia, & now resides near 'Benares,' he usually rides on horseback throwing himself with great agility into the Saddle - 18 August 1820.'
For an illustration of the original watercolour, see: Welch, 'Room for Wonder,' 1978, pp. 80-81.
Purchased October 2007
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264295
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264295
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Benares or Patna style
Benares style - Start Date:
- 1820
- End Date:
- 1820
- Date Range:
- 1820
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour; paper
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Ascetics
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