Painting
ca. 1620 - ca. 1630 (made)
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Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a prince with companions, listening to a singer and tambura player beneath a banyan tree, near a thatched hut overlooking a harbour with ships in the distance.
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Materials and techniques | Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper |
Brief description | Painting, prince and companions listening to singer and musician, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1620-1630 |
Physical description | Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a prince with companions, listening to a singer and tambura player beneath a banyan tree, near a thatched hut overlooking a harbour with ships in the distance. |
Content description | A prince with companions, listening to a singer and tambura player beneath a banyan tree, near a thatched hut overlooking a harbour with ships in the distance. |
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Object history | Formerly in the collections of Warren Hastings (Governor-General of India 1774-1785) and Captain E. G. Spencer-Churchill. Sold to the museum (with other paintings in the Spencer-Churchill collection) in 1965. |
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Bibliographic reference | Ayers, J. Oriental Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1983, ISBN 0-85667-120-7
p. 70 |
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Accession number | IS.89-1965 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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