Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
South Asia Gallery, Room 41

Painting

ca. 1590 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Mughal Empire (made)

Painting, in ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, calligraphy panel.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Calligraphy
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Paint
Paper
Gold
Ink
Painted
Brief description
Painting, calligraphy, ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1590
Physical description
Painting, in ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, calligraphy panel.
Dimensions
  • Page height: 436mm
  • Page width: 320mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 317mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 197mm
12/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Calligraphy.
Style
Mughal
Credit line
Bequeathed by the Hon. Dame Ada Macnaghten
Object history
Bequeathed by the Hon. Dame Ada Macnaghten
Production
The borders are later, probably added in Lucknow in the 18th century
Subject depicted
Calligraphy
Associated object
IS.4-1970 (Verso)
Bibliographic references
  • Robert Skelton, "Mughal Painting from Harivamsa Manuscript", V&A Yearbook no. 2, 1970
  • Asok Kumar Das, Dawn of Mughal Painting, Plate VIII, p. 24
  • STRONGE, Susan. Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book 1560 – 1660 London : V&A Publications, 2002. 192p, ill. ISBN 1 85177 358 4. pps, 95 and 97, pl. 63
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.4:2-1970

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Record createdSeptember 11, 2013
Record URL
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