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On short term loan out for exhibition

Painting

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

Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Nur Jahan entertaining Jahangir and Shah Jahan in a garden, after a 17th century original.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Brief description
Painting, Nur Jahan entertaining Jahangir and Shah Jahan in garden, after a 17th century original, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1800
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Nur Jahan entertaining Jahangir and Shah Jahan in a garden, after a 17th century original.
Dimensions
  • Height: 388mm
  • Width: 174mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 240mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 127mm
29/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Painting Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Nur Jahan entertaining Jahangir and Shah Jahan in a cgarden.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Lady Wantage
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
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. 7, pl. 5
Collection
Accession number
IM.115-1921

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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