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Johnson 66,4v-9v
- Record Id:
- 042-003287706
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003286446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184689.0x0004ed
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Johnson 66,4v-9v
- Title:
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J.66,4v-9v Thirty-six paintings comprising a’ ragamala’ series, arranged according to the Ordinary system. Hyderabad, c.1784-85. Richard Johnson Colle ...
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J.66,4v-9v
Thirty-six paintings comprising a’ ragamala’ series, arranged according to the Ordinary system.
Hyderabad, c.1784-85.
Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807.
Gouache with gold; green and gold borders; mounted in groups of six on six sheets of paper with floral decoration in colours and gold in the form of garlands, each sheet mounted on the reverse of an album leaf with a miniature painting of the Farrukhabad school on the ‘recto’.
Page 500 by 330 mm.
Note: These thirty-six ragamala illustrations are closely linked with those of Johnson Albums 31 and 32. They are mounted in groups of six under each ‘raga’ in the same manner as Album 32 with floral garlands decorating the page and running between the pictures suggesting their musical relationship with one another. Whereas Album 32 and the related ‘charbas’ of Album 31 have been attributed to the period when Johnson was at Lucknow until 1782, these illustrations are attributed to the period of his subsequent posting at Hyderabad. The foundation of this attribution is the totally different range of pigments used with the characteristic mauves and pinks associated with Hyderabad painting. The assumption is that when Johnson was recalled from Lucknow in September 1782 the work of producing the ‘ragamala’ series from the charbas of Album 31 was interrupted, so he would have takan the material with him to Calcutta and thence to Hyderabad where there were again competent artists who could be employed to finish the work. Perhaps the original intention was for the finished set to be Album 32 which was superseded at Hyderabad by the new larger scale project of Album 66.
The iconography of the series follows the Ordinary system save for the variations of placing or iconography found in the cases of ‘Vasanta Ragini, Devgandhar Ragini’ and ‘Gujari Ragini.’
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J.66,4v
Dipaka Raga and related raginis.
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J.66,5v
Sri Raga and related raginis .
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J.66,6v
Hindola Raga and related raginis.
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J.66,7v
Megha Raga and related raginis.
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J.66,8v
Malkos Raga and related raginis.
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J.66,9v
Bhairava Raga and related raginis.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Johnson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003286446
040-003287701
041-003287705
042-003287706 - Is part of:
- Johnson Collection : Richard Johnson CollectionRichard Johnson (1753-1807) lived in India from June 1770 until January 1790. He began working…
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Johnson 66,4v-9v : J.66,4v-9v Thirty-six paintings comprising a’ ragamala’ series, arranged according to the Ordinary system. Hyderabad,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003286446[0067]/040-003287701[0004]/041-003287705[0001]/042-003287706
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Johnson Collection
- Record Type (Level):
- SubItem
- Extent:
- 36 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1785
- Date Range:
- 1784-1785
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Former Internal References:
- J.66,4v-9v
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)