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Warren Hastings

Painting
ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Rajasthan (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, portrait of Warren Hastings, wearing a scarlet coat and white stock; a pinkish mauve curtain on one side.

Object details

Category
Indian Company Paintings
Object type
Painting
TitleWarren Hastings (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Watercolour
Paper
Brief description
Painting, Warren Hastings, opaque watercolour on paper, Rajasthan, ca. 1780.
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, portrait of Warren Hastings, wearing a scarlet coat and white stock; a pinkish mauve curtain on one side.
Dimensions
  • Length: 40cm
  • Width: 29cm
Content description
portrait of Warren Hastings
Style
Company
Marks and inscriptions


  • Note
    Inscribed in devanagari in cartouche at top of mount: Governor General Hasting[s] farangi [=European] governor of Calcutta, Bengal

    Transliteration
    'gavarnar jinral hastin pharangi subidar kelkata, bangalka'

  • 'Warren Hastings copy from an original painting at Jaipur'

    Note
    Inscribed at bottom in English:

Credit line
Bequeathed by Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Object history
Copy of a contemporary portrait of Warren Hastings, Governor General of India from 1774 to 1785. Below written in English hand writing are the words "Warren Hastings. Copy from original contemporary painting at Jaipur."
Subjects depicted
Curtain
Hastings, Warren
Association
Curzon. (Lord)
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Mapin Publishing, 1992 175 p. ISBN 0944142303
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.312-1927

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Record createdMay 27, 2002
Record URL
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