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Johnson 4,1
- Record Id:
- 041-003286508
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003286446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x00003f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171607739.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Johnson 4,1
- Title:
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Shah Jahan on horseback
- Scope & Content:
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Shah Jahan on horseback.
Mughal, c.1650.
Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.
Inscribed beneath: ‘Dara Shekoh’; Persian inventory inscription on reverse almost entirely cut away.
Gouache with gold; on an album page with gilt-sprinkled blue border.
249 by 195 mm; page 393 by 267 mm.
Listed: Foster, no.73.
Shah Jahan is dressed in white, holding a lance with both hands and riding on a piebald horse through grassland.
Note: The background was repainted at Lucknow in the late eighteenth century. The painting is another version of the equestrian portrait by Payag of Shah Jahan c. 1628 now in the Kevorkian Album in the Metropolitan Museum, New York
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Johnson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003286446
040-003286507
041-003286508 - Is part of:
- Johnson Collection : Richard Johnson CollectionRichard Johnson (1753-1807) lived in India from June 1770 until January 1790. He began working…
Johnson 4 : Total of 28 leaves separately mounted. . All male portraiture, although some are composite scenes, and one (5) has a female portrait on…
Johnson 4,1 : Shah Jahan on horseback - Hierarchy:
- 032-003286446[0005]/040-003286507[0001]/041-003286508
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Johnson Collection
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171607739.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/Shah Jahan style - Start Date:
- 1630
- End Date:
- 1650
- Date Range:
- 1630-1650
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Former Internal References:
- J.4,1
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 89
- Publications:
- Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, by J.P. Losty and M. Roy (London, 2012), fig. 66
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)