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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Mughal Empire (made)

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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Categories	Paintings Music Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper Paint Opaque Watercolour Paper Gold Painted
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.
Style	Mughal
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.
Subjects depicted	Music Prince Singer Musician Banyan Hut Harbour
Bibliographic reference	Ayers, J. Oriental Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1983, ISBN 0-85667-120-7 p. 70
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.89-1965

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O434270/painting-unknown/

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