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Johnson 58,1
- Record Id:
- 041-003287583
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003286446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x000472
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171870027.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Johnson 58,1
- Title:
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The artist Dal Chand. Artist(s): Mohan Singh (fl.c.1780-82)
- Scope & Content:
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The artist Rai Dal Chand.
By Mohan Singh, Lucknow, c.1780-85 (after a mid-18th-century Mughal original).
Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.
Inscribed at top in Persian: ‘shabeh-i rai dal chand musavvir’ (a likeness of the artist Rai Dal Chand); beneath: ‘‘amal-i mohan singh’ (the work of Mohan Singh); Persian inventory note (not numbered).
‘Charba’; laid down on card-backed paper; the picture completed in pencil beyond the extent of the ‘charba.’
100 by 68 mm, extended to 152 by 96 mm; page 238 by 160 mm.
The artist Rai Dal Chand kneels facing right, holding a bottle and small dish. He is bearded and wears a turban banded in orange and gold.
Note: The tracing is taken from a Mughal portrait of some decades before. The artist Dal Chand was active at Delhi in the first half of the eighteenth century and visited Jodhpur where he painted an equestrian portrait of Abhai Singh (1725-50) (‘see’ Ashton (1950), no.431).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Johnson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003286446
040-003287582
041-003287583 - Is part of:
- Johnson Collection : Richard Johnson CollectionRichard Johnson (1753-1807) lived in India from June 1770 until January 1790. He began working…
Johnson 58 : Total of 21 leaves separately mounted. All are male portraits.
Johnson 58,1 : The artist Dal Chand. Artist(s): Mohan Singh (fl.c.1780-82) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003286446[0058]/040-003287582[0001]/041-003287583
- 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_100171870027.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Lucknow style
- Start Date:
- 1780
- End Date:
- 1782
- Date Range:
- 1780-1782
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; tracing (chabra)
- Former Internal References:
- J.58,1
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 287
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)