Rites and Festivals of Muslims and the main Hindu Castes
Album Page
1774 (made)
1774 (made)
| Place of origin |
Burial ceremony (four scenes): washing the body in the river; maulavi reading the Koran near the beir; the procession with the body; Muslim tombs. Below: assembly of fakirs in ecstasy, drunk with love of God; musicians present; cooking for attendants and fakirs.
Object details
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| Title | Rites 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, 1774. Page number 28 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). Burial ceremony (four scenes). The text on the back of this page relates to the next image, IS.25:30-1980. |
| Physical description | Burial ceremony (four scenes): washing the body in the river; maulavi reading the Koran near the beir; the procession with the body; Muslim tombs. Below: assembly of fakirs in ecstasy, drunk with love of God; musicians present; cooking for attendants and fakirs. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Inscribed with notes relating to the illustrations and a list of contents giving Gentil's title and a brief description for each folio. Inscribed inside front cover.) |
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| 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 |
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| Accession number | IS.25:29-1980 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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