Depictions of a Bengal green pigeon and a Plumbeous redsatart of Northern India
Painting
ca. 1820 (made)
ca. 1820 (made)
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Depictions of a Bengal green pigeon and a Plumbeous redstart of Northern India on paper, on either side of an album folio
Object details
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| Title | Depictions of a Bengal green pigeon and a Plumbeous redsatart of Northern India (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Water colour on torn and stained paper |
| Brief description | Album folio with a painting of a Bengal green pigeon on one side (a) and a Plumbeous redstart on the other (b); Northern India, Kangra, ca. 1820 |
| Physical description | Depictions of a Bengal green pigeon and a Plumbeous redstart of Northern India on paper, on either side of an album folio |
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| Marks and inscriptions | "Bengal green pigeon" (a)
"Plumbeous Redstart (b) (The redstart has its name in the Dogri form of Takri, which has been transliterated (bar Kavvan, with the additional comment "1st letter doubtful, illegible"), and the English names added in pencil at a later date) |
| Object history | Presented by Robert Scott Greenshields (Indian Civil Service, Bengal and Assam 1879-1910), 1929 |
| 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, 170 p ISBN 0944142303 |
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| Accession number | E.427-1929 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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