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Shah Jahan

Painting
ca.1800 (made)
Place of origin
Mughal Empire (made)

Shah Jahan is depicted on a throne called at the time the 'Jewelled Throne' but which later became known as the 'Peacock Throne'. This painting bequeathed by Lady Wantage in 1921 as a genuine painting of his reign was subsequently identified as a later copy of a lost original, probably done in Delhi or Lucknow in about 1800.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Royalty
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleShah Jahan (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Paint
Paper
Opaque Watercolour
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Shah Jahan enthroned, after a 17th century original, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, ca. 1800
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Shah Jahan enthroned, after a 17th century original.
Dimensions
  • Height: 386mm
  • Width: 270mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 162mm
  • Image within inntermost painted borders width: 120mm
29/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Shah Jahan enthroned.
Style
Mughal
Credit line
Bequeathed by Lady Wantage
Object history
Part of the bequest of the Right Honourable Harriet Sarah Baroness Wantage, of Locking House, Wantage Berks, widow of the first and last Baron Wantage, V.C., K.C.B., V.D.

R.P. 1920-8342, 1920-5869, 1921-3081, 1921-177
Production
a late copy of a lost original of ca. 1640
Subjects depicted
Throne
Emperor
Shah Jahan
Summary
Shah Jahan is depicted on a throne called at the time the 'Jewelled Throne' but which later became known as the 'Peacock Throne'. This painting bequeathed by Lady Wantage in 1921 as a genuine painting of his reign was subsequently identified as a later copy of a lost original, probably done in Delhi or Lucknow in about 1800.
Bibliographic references
  • Clarke, C. Stanley; Indian Drawings: Thirty Mogul Paintings of the School of Jehangir and Four Panels of Calligraphy ini the Wantage Bequest. London 1922 No. 16, pl. 10
  • S. Stronge, " Thrones of the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan", Jewellery Studies, vol. 10, London, 2004, p. 60, fig. 10.
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.113-1921

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Record createdSeptember 30, 2008
Record URL
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