Gentil's own Involvement with the Recent History of Oudh

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Faizabad (made)

Interview of Gentil with the nawab when he brought a corps of 200 French soldiers to Oudh, who had been forced to serve the British but had deserted. Later this force was increased up to 600 soldiers. Shuja took them into his service as he wished to keep Gentil with him.

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Category	Indian Company Paintings
Object type	Album page
Title	Gentil's own Involvement with the Recent History of Oudh (series title)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour Watercolour
Brief description	Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca.1774. Page number 14. Interview of Gentil with the nawab. The text on the back of this page relates to the next image, IS.25:15-1980.
Physical description	Interview of Gentil with the nawab when he brought a corps of 200 French soldiers to Oudh, who had been forced to serve the British but had deserted. Later this force was increased up to 600 soldiers. Shuja took them into his service as he wished to keep Gentil with him.
Dimensions	Length: 37cm Width: 53.5cm
Style	Company
Marks and inscriptions	On reverse (a note on Gentil's career and service with the nawab.) (Inscribed with notes relating to the illustrations and a list of contents giving Gentil's title and a brief description for each folio. Inscribed inside front cover.)
Subjects depicted	Interview Soldiers Oudh Gentil Nawab Shuja
Place depicted	Oudh
Bibliographic reference	Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 119-120 p. ISBN 0944142303 Chanchal Dadlani, ‘Transporting India. The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture’, Art History. 2025, pp. 748-761
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.25:14-1980

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O405311/gentils-own-involvement-with-the-album-page-unknown/

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