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Royal Hunts
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Royal Hunts
- Object:
Album page
- Place of origin:
Faizabad, India (made)
- Date:
ca. 1774 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour
- Museum number:
IS.25:13-1980
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
A rhinoceros and buffalo hunt in 1768 in the woods of the Bairaitch province of Oudh with a corps of six hundred Frenchmen, at which Gentil was present. The nawab killed two rhinoceroses after they had wounded ten elephants.
Place of Origin
Faizabad, India (made)
Date
ca. 1774 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown (production)
Materials and Techniques
Watercolour
Dimensions
Length: 37 cm, Width: 53.5 cm
Descriptive line
Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca.1774. Page number 13. A rhinoceros and buffalo hunt in 1768. The text on the back of this page relates to the next image, IS.25:14-1980, and is numbered 'page 14'.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
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 p. ISBN 0944142303
Materials
Watercolour
Subjects depicted
Hunting; Elephants; Buffalo; Gentil, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (Colonel); Rhinoceros; Oudh; Nawab; Corps
Categories
Indian Company Paintings
Collection code
SSEA
