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Painting

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting a fight between a lion and a buffalo near a forest pool.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting. fight between lion and buffalo, style of Mihr Chand, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, ca. 1760
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting a fight between a lion and a buffalo near a forest pool.
Content description
A fight between a lion and a buffalo near a forest pool.
Style
Credit line
Given by Colonel T. G. Gayer-Anderson, CMG, DSO, and his twin brother Major R. G. Gayer- Anderson, Pasha.
Object history
From the Gayer-Anderson Collection.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
In the image of man : the Indian perception of the universe through 2000 years of painting and sculpture : [exhibition / organized by Catherine Lampert assisted by Rosalie Cass]. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson :in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1982 Number: 0297780719, 0297781243 (pbk.) p. 106, cat. no. 43
Collection
Accession number
IS.234-1952

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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