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Add Or 5726
- Record Id:
- 032-003264377
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264377
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00033a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5726
- Title:
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Lieutenant Gervase Pennington, 3rd Bengal Horse Artillery. Artist(s): Jivan Ram, Raja (fl. 1825-1840)
- Scope & Content:
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Lieutenant Gervase Pennington, 3rd Bengal Horse Artillery
By Jivan Ram, Meerut or Delhi, 1826.
Gouache on ivory. 16 by 11.5 cm.
Purchased November 2013.
This is set in an interior with a view to a landscape outside through arched embrasures. Pennington adopts a military swagger pose with one hand on his hip, the other on his sword, while his crested helmet is beside him. Pennington was Adjutant to the 3rd Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery from 1825 to 1832 and along with his regiment was involved in the Siege of Bharatpur in 1825-26, which would have brought him into Jivan Ram’s ambit.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264377
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264377
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Delhi style
- Start Date:
- 1826
- End Date:
- 1826
- Date Range:
- 1826
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: ivory; watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jivan Ram, Raja, fl 1825-1840
Pennington, Gervaise, Lieutenant, 1795-1835 - Subjects:
- Portraits