Royal Hunts
Album Page
ca. 1774 (made)
ca. 1774 (made)
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A rhinoceros and buffalo hunt in 1768 in the woods of the Bairaitch province of Oudh with a corps of six hundred Frenchmen, at which Gentil was present. The nawab killed two rhinoceroses after they had wounded ten elephants.
Object details
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| Title | Royal Hunts (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca.1774. Page number 13. A rhinoceros and buffalo hunt in 1768. The text on the back of this page relates to the next image, IS.25:14-1980, and is numbered 'page 14'. |
| Physical description | A rhinoceros and buffalo hunt in 1768 in the woods of the Bairaitch province of Oudh with a corps of six hundred Frenchmen, at which Gentil was present. The nawab killed two rhinoceroses after they had wounded ten elephants. |
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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 119 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.25:13-1980 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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