Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
South Asia Gallery, Room 41

Painting

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Murshidabad (made)
Mughal Empire (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, a study of birds including two golden orioles.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Animals and Wildlife
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Paint
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, birds, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, probably Murshidabad, ca. 1750
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, a study of birds including two golden orioles.
Dimensions
  • Height: 247mm (maximum)
  • Width: 173mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 192mm (maximum; approx.)
  • Image within innermost painted border width: 147mm (maximum)
14/08/2013 dimensions measured as part of the Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description
Birds.
Styles
Mughal
Murshidabad School
Gallery label
  • The two largest birds are Indian Golden Orioles, a species found in southern and central Asia. The many other birds in the painting are all depicted in pairs. Such studies were based on earlier Mughal paintings, which themselves are based on European botanical works. Some artists from the Mughal court in Delhi moved to Murshidabad and Lucknow during the 18th century and developed this more austere and slightly static style of painting.(March 2022)
Credit line
Purchased from Martinus Nijhoff in 1903
Object history
Transferred from the Department of Engraving, Illustration & Design.

RP 51/2237
Subjects depicted
Birds
Plants
Flowers
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
D.1179-1903

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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