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WD4378
- Record Id:
- 040-003287787
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003287772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x000010
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143421588.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4378
- Title:
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Smaller mosque of Aurangzeb, with the north minaret covered with scaffolding. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
- Scope & Content:
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Smaller mosque of Aurangzeb, with the north minaret covered with scaffolding.
Inscribed on reverse: ‘Madhoray Ghat and the Minarets. 10 March 1826’.
Water-colour; 26.5 by 17.8 cm.
Purchased 1993.
Note: Reproduction in ‘Benares illustrated’, lithographed by L. Haghe. 'At the time of drawing the sketch, the Musjid and Meenars were under repair, - a hazardous undertaking, as regarded the latter, for they were both found to incline outwards 15 inches from the perpendicular. One of them was struck by lightning the very day the scaffolding was removed ...'. See WD4278 for plan and elevation.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003287772
040-003287787 - Is part of:
- PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840) : PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840) Seventh son of John Prinsep, brother of William (q.v.). Assistant Assay Master,…
WD4378 : Smaller mosque of Aurangzeb, with the north minaret covered with scaffolding. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003287772[0015]/040-003287787
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840)
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143421588.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1826
- End Date:
- 1826
- Date Range:
- 1826
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 260
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)