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Rites and Festivals of Muslims and the main Hindu Castes

Album Page
ca. 1774 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Faizabad (made)

Arms and jewellery for men and women.


Object details

Categories
Albums
Paintings
Jewellery
Arms & Armour
Object type
Album page
TitleRites and Festivals of Muslims and the main Hindu Castes (series title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Brief description
Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 33 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). Arms and jewellery for men and women.
Physical description
Arms and jewellery for men and women.
Dimensions
  • Length: 37cm
  • Width: 53.5cm
Style
Company
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period. Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 122 p. ISBN 0944142303 Chanchal Dadlani, ‘Transporting India. The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture’, Art History. 2025, pp. 748-761
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.25:34-1980

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O402774/rites-and-festivals-of-muslims-album-page-unknown/
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