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Johnson 4,5v
- Record Id:
- 041-003286513
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003286446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x000044
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171607868.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Johnson 4,5v
- Title:
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A girl standing at a window with bottle and cup. Artist(s): Raghunandan (fl. c.1660)
- Scope & Content:
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A girl standing at a window.
By Raghunandan, Mughal, c.1660.
Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.
Inscribed above in Persian: ‘‘amal-i raghunandan’ (the work of Raghunandan); Persian inventory note (not numbered); a couplet written in ‘nasta‘liq’ calligraphy above the miniature translates: ‘The comb does not reach her tress even if there is a dawn wind/ Sulma does not reach her eye if it should become modesty’.
Gouache with gold; on an album leaf with inner pink border with waving foliage in gold, middle gold floral border, and outer plain border.
73 by 51 mm; page 420 by 285 mm.
Seal of E.I.C. below miniature.
Reverse: a miniature of a Mughal prince.
Reproduced: Losty (1986), 35.
The girl, shown three-quarter length facing left, holds a bottle in her left hand and a small cup in the right, wearing a gold-trimmed ‘Chador’ and salmon-pink skirt; dark background.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Johnson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003286446
040-003286507
041-003286513 - 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 4,5v : A girl standing at a window with bottle and cup. Artist(s): Raghunandan (fl. c.1660) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003286446[0005]/040-003286507[0006]/041-003286513
- 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_100171607868.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/Aurangzeb style - Start Date:
- 1659
- End Date:
- 1661
- Date Range:
- c 1660
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Former Internal References:
- J.4,5v
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 99
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)