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A Procession of Ghazi ud-Din Haider through Lucknow.

Painting
ca.1820 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Lucknow (painted)

Panoramic painting in three sections, illuminated, Illustrating the state entry of Ghazi ud-Din Haidar (nawab 1814-1819; king 1819-1827) of Oudh passing through the crowded streets of Lucknow in 1797, to enforce his succession as the Nairab-Zdazir of Oudh.


Object details

Category
Indian Company Paintings
Object type
Painting
TitleA Procession of Ghazi ud-Din Haider through Lucknow. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Opaque watercolour on paper
Watercolour
Paper
Brief description
Painting, panorama of Lucknow in 1797; Paintings, water colour, Lucknow, ca.1800
Physical description
Panoramic painting in three sections, illuminated, Illustrating the state entry of Ghazi ud-Din Haidar (nawab 1814-1819; king 1819-1827) of Oudh passing through the crowded streets of Lucknow in 1797, to enforce his succession as the Nairab-Zdazir of Oudh.
Dimensions
  • Height: 124.5cm
  • Width: 160.5cm
Style
Company
Marks and inscriptions
Surgeon P. J. Clarke, 90th Rgt./17 [?]/7/58 (Written on back.)
Credit line
Purchased from R. Gordon-Smith Esq (c/o H.B.M. Consulate General, Kobe, Japan)
Object history
Bought from R. Gordon-Smith Esq for £100 in 1909 (on loan to the museum from 1905). Accession register has the note: 'The Vendor states that the painting was obtained by an officer of the 23rd Royal Welsh at Lucknow, during the relief of that city in 1857'. Inscribed on the back of IM.2:1-1909: 'Surgeon P. J. Clarke, 90th Rgt./17 [?]/7/58' Another note on the accession register in different ink says "Said to have been been found by an uncle of Gordon-Smith at the relief of Lucknow in 1857." According to Miss V[ictoria] Manthorpe of Central Television, Birmingham. (Letter, 23.10.1982)."

Purchased from R. Gordon-Smith Esq (c/o H.B.M. Consulate General, Kobe, Japan). This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.

RPs 2422/1907; AM 2804/1909; 2134/1909
Subject depicted
Procession
Places depicted
Oudh
Lucknow
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 126-127 p. ISBN 0944142303
  • India's fabled city : the art of courtly Lucknow / Stephen Markel with Tushara Bindu Gude ; and contributions by Muzaffar Alam ... [et al.]. Munich ;London: Prestel, Johann Gottlieb, c2010 Number: 9783791350752 (hbk.), 3791350757 (hbk.) cat. no. 56, pp.24-25 (detail), pp.96-97.
  • The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 Number: ISBN 0 906969 26 3 cat. no. 104, p. 53. Andrew Topsfield
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.2:1-1909

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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