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Add Or 735
- Record Id:
- 040-003272159
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272158
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000a0b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 735
- Title:
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An Indian lady, 'Muttubby', seated on a chair smoking a hookah with the river Ganges behind her. Artist(s): Dip Chand (fl.c.1764)
- Scope & Content:
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An Indian lady.
Inscribed on reverse: ‘Muttubby. W.F. 1764.’
209 by 131 mm; page 239 by 162 mm.
Reproduced: Losty (1986), 65; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 28.
The lady sits on a European chair, smoking a hookah which is placed on a European side-table before her. In the background is the river with two boats on open water and distant trees on the far bank.
Note: This is probably a courtesan or a ‘bibi.’
Exhibition history:
Indar Pasricha Fine Arts 10 February - 7 March 1998.
Musee d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, 11 December 1998 - 14 March 1999.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272158
040-003272159 - Is part of:
- Add Or 735-738 : Add.Or.735-738 Four portraits of Patna nobility and holy men. Attributed to Dip Chand, Patna, c.1764. Purchased from Miss Enid…
Add Or 735 : An Indian lady, 'Muttubby', seated on a chair smoking a hookah with the river Ganges behind her. Artist(s): Dip Chand… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272158[0001]/040-003272159
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 735-738
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Bengal style
Eastern India style
Murshidabad style
Murshidabad style at Patna - Start Date:
- 1763
- End Date:
- 1765
- Date Range:
- c 1764
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Exhibitions:
- Forbidden City in Monaco: Court life of the Chinese Emperors and Empresses, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, 8 July 2017 - 10 Sept 2017
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library, 9 November 2012 - 2 April 2013 - Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chand, Dip, fl 1764
Muttubby - Subjects:
- Hookahs
Portraits
Women
rivers and lakes - Places:
- Ganges, River, India