Sixty drawings of Mughal monuments and architectural details.
Drawing
ca.1836 (made)
ca.1836 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Taj Mahal, Agra, from the river Jumna.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Sixty drawings of Mughal monuments and architectural details. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Architectural; drawings, Taj Mahal, Agra, river Jumna , ca.1836 |
| Physical description | Taj Mahal, Agra, from the river Jumna. |
| Dimensions |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | Note Inscribed with titles on back in English and on front in Persian characters. |
| Object history | The drawings are recorded as being by 'native' droughtsmen of the Delhi School in the Office of the Honourable East India Company's Superintendent of Public Buildings and Ancient Monuments at Calcutta, ca.1836. These set of drawings are of Mughal monuments in the Delhi area in a landscape setting. They are almost identical to a set collected in Delhi by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, ca.1840, some of which were by Mazar Ali Khan and published in Kaye, 1980. |
| Places depicted | |
| 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 145 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.20-1923 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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