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Foster 839

Record Id:

032-003264703

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003264703

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Foster 839

Title:

Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi (1869-1948). Head and shoulders portrait of Gandhi wearing spectacles and a shawl. Artist(s): Amschewitz, John Henry (1882-1942)

Scope & Content:

Mohandas Karamcand Gandhi (1869-1948), 1931

Head and shoulders portrait of Gandhi wearing spectacles and a shawl.

Inscribed: ‘Gandhi, J.H. Amschewitz, Nov, 1931’ and in pencil on the reverse ‘Gandhi, study from life, London, Nov 1931’.

Oil on hardboard; 10.75 by 8 ins (27.2 by 20.5 cms)

Presented to the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, formerly of The British Museum, by Mr. Horace G Alexander in 1970, in trust as a gift to a public collection, and transferred to the India Office Library and Records in 1983.

Exhibited: Mahatma Gandhi Centenary Exhibition, The British Museum, 1969; National Portrait Gallery, ‘The Raj’, 1990, no.552.

This portrait study of the Indian political leader and social reformer was made during the course of Gandhi’s visit to London in 1931 to act as the plenipotentiary representative of the Indian National Congress at the Second Round Table Conference. He made himself available for artists for one day in November 1931. For another portrait made then, seeWD4433 by Jacob Kramer.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

India Office Oil Paintings

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

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Styles:

British school
European school

Start Date:

1931

End Date:

1931

Date Range:

1931

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: oil paint; canvas

Finding Aids:

Mildred Archer, The India Office collection of paintings and sculpture (London, 1986), 111

Exhibitions:

Deities and Devotion: The Arts of Hinduism, British Museum, London, 4 November 1993 - 10 April 1994

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Amschewitz, John Henry, 1882-1942
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, Mahātmā, lawyer, politician, anti-colonialist activist and ethicist, 1869-1948,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121386043

Subjects:

Portraits