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Jahangir

Painting
ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Jahangir inspecting a golden image, after a 17th century original.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleJahangir (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Jahangir inspecting a golden image, after a 17th century original, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, ca. 1800
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Jahangir inspecting a golden image, after a 17th century original.
Dimensions
  • Height: 398mm
  • Width: 265mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 246mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 136mm
29/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Painting Cataloguing Project 2013
Style
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
Subjects depicted
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. 6, pl. 5
Collection
Accession number
IM.116-1921

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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