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Johnson 50,1
- Record Id:
- 041-003287466
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003286446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x0003fd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171860162.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Johnson 50,1
- Title:
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Bhairavi Ragini. Artist(s): Fath Chand (fl.c.1750-60)
- Scope & Content:
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Bhairavi Ragini.
By Fath Chand, Mughal, c.1760.
Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.
Inscribed beneath in Persian: ‘‘amal-i rai fath chand’ (the work of Rai Fath Chand); numbered 12 in Persian inventory note; on reverse: ‘bhairavi.’
Gouache with gold; oval with blue spandrels decorated with gold roses.
145 by 112 mm; page 233 by 172 mm.
Reproduced: Stchoukine (1929), pl.LX1b; Habibullah (1959), 55.
A lady with a gold halo kneels before a lingam shrine on a terrace at night, with four attendant women standing behind her.
Note: This composition seems to have been popular. Another version attributed to Fath Chand is in the Jaipur Museum (published Randhawa and Galbraith (1968), pl.10), and one by Mihr Chand is in the Berlin State Museums (Kuhnel (1922), pl.134).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Johnson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003286446
040-003287465
041-003287466 - Is part of:
- Johnson Collection : Richard Johnson CollectionRichard Johnson (1753-1807) lived in India from June 1770 until January 1790. He began working…
Johnson 50 : Total of 4 miscellaneous leaves separately mounted described in the 1830 catalogue as 'Hindu imaginative subjects'. Three of the…
Johnson 50,1 : Bhairavi Ragini. Artist(s): Fath Chand (fl.c.1750-60) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003286446[0050]/040-003287465[0001]/041-003287466
- 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_100171860162.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/18th century style - Start Date:
- 1759
- End Date:
- 1761
- Date Range:
- c 1760
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Former Internal References:
- J.50,1
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 202
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)