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Johnson 22,12

Record Id:

041-003286778

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003286446

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x00014d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Johnson 22,12

Title:

Yogis sleeping

Scope & Content:

Yogis sleeping.

Mughal, c.1770.

Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.

Inscribed in Persian: ‘‘amal-i mas‘ud, sunnah 130’ (the work of Masud, year 130 - perhaps intended as AH1013/AD1604-1605 or AH1030/AD1620-21); on reverse: ‘jalsah-i fuqara-i jalali’ (gathering of illustrious ascetics).

Tinted drawing with gold; on an album leaf with a border of marbled paper and a margin of leaf-pattern in blue and gold.

199 by 143 mm; page 361 by 237 mm.

Reverse: an undecorated blue panel.

Three yogis and their dog are asleep beneath a banyan tree, as a fourth figure approaches over the horizon. There is a shrine on a hilltop on the left.

Note: This is a later version of J.22, 15, where the banyan tree is almost identical. The inscription is not reliable, the same attribution having been added to J.22, 15 and 16.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Johnson Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003286446
040-003286761
041-003286778

Is part of:

Johnson Collection : Richard Johnson CollectionRichard Johnson (1753-1807) lived in India from June 1770 until January 1790. He began working…
Johnson 22 : Total of 16 leaves separately mounted of which 2 are Persian. There is no uniformity of subject matter. Many of the leaves have…

Johnson 22,12 : Yogis sleeping

Hierarchy:

032-003286446[0023]/040-003286761[0017]/041-003286778

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Johnson Collection

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

Mughal style
Mughal/18th century style

Start Date:

1769

End Date:

1771

Date Range:

c 1770

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: tinted drawing

Former Internal References:

J.22,12

Finding Aids:

Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 218

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Ascetics
Hindus
Occupations
ethnic and religious groups