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WD13
- Record Id:
- 032-003267945
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267945
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00112a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD13
- Title:
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Portrait of Mohan Lal, three-quarter length, seated on a sofa, holding a letter; a scroll and two books beside him. Artist(s): Fischer, John George Paul (1786-1875)
- Scope & Content:
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Portrait of Mohan Lal, three-quarter length, seated on a sofa, holding a letter; a scroll and two books beside him. 1846.
Inscribed on mount in ink: ‘Mohan Lal’; on back in ink: ‘Mirza Mohan Lal (painted from life 1846) by Paul Fischer. 3, Queen Charlotte Row, New Road Marylebone, London’; on scroll in picture: ‘Mirza Mohan Lal of Cashmer’; on a book: ‘Painted from Life by Paul Fischer. London, 1846.’
Water-colour; 14 by 11 ins.
Presented by Lieut.-Colonel G.V. Dreyer, 3 December 1945.
Note: Mohan Lal (?-1870) accompanied Alexander Burnes and Dr. Gerard on their expedition to Persia, 1832. His diary, ‘Journal of a tour through the Punjab, Afghanistan, Khorasan, and part of Persia,’ was published in English in London in 1834 and again in 1846. During the first Afghan War he was attaché to the British Agency. Most of his life was spent in Delhi but he visited England from 1844 to 1846. He is shown wearing the Persian order of the Lion and Sun.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267945
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267945
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1846
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 601
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fischer, John George Paul, painter, 1786-1875
Mohan Lal, Mirza, of Kashmir, d 1870 - Subjects:
- Books
Portraits