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Painting

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Mughal Empire (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting a pair of Tibetan cranes, after a 17th century original by Mansur.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Animals and Wildlife
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, pair of Tibetan cranes, after a 17th century original by Mansur, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1800
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting a pair of Tibetan cranes, after a 17th century original by Mansur.
DimensionsHalf Imperial Mount (Portrait)
Content description
A pair of Tibetan cranes.
Style
Mughal
Credit line
Bequeathed by Lady Wantage
Object history
Part of the bequest of the Right Honourable Harriet Sarah Baroness Wantage, of Locking House, Wantage Berks, widow of the first and last Baron Wantage, V.C., K.C.B., V.D.

R.P. 1920-8342, 1920-5869, 1921-3081, 1921-177
Production
After a 17th century original by Mansur.
Subject depicted
Cranes
Bibliographic references
  • STRONGE, Susan. Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book 1560 – 1660 London : V&A Publications, 2002. 192p, ill. ISBN 1 85177 358 4. p. 133, pl. 98
  • The art of India and Pakistan, a commemorative catalogue of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8. Edited by Sir Leigh Ashton. London: Faber and Faber, [1950] p. 158, cat. no. 714, pl. 6
  • Clarke, C. Stanley; Indian Drawings: Thirty Mogul Paintings of the School of Jehangir and Four Panels of Calligraphy ini the Wantage Bequest. London 1922 No. 20, pl. 14
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.122A-1921

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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