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Painting

ca. 1760 - ca. 1763 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dip Chand (maker)
Place of origin
Murshidabad (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, an officer, probably Gurgin Khan, the Armenian general of Nawab Mir Qasim, seated smoking on a terrace, with two servants.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Paint
Gold
Painted
Brief description
Painting, officer, probably Gurgin Khan, smoking, by Dip Chand, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Murshidabad, ca. 1760-1763
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, an officer, probably Gurgin Khan, the Armenian general of Nawab Mir Qasim, seated smoking on a terrace, with two servants.
Dimensions
  • Height: 319mm
  • Width: 252mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 286mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 221mm (maximum)
14/08/2013 dimensions measured as part of the Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description
An officer, probably Gurgin Khan, the Armenian general of Nawab Mir Qasim, seated smoking on a terrace, with two servants.
Styles
Mughal
Murshidabad School
Object history
Transferred from the Department of Engraving, Illustration & Design.

RP 51/2237
Historical context
The painting formerly belonged to the Fullarton collection. The painter of this picture Dip Chand used a precise and pallid style. His paintings and those of other painters in his school differed from other Murshidabad court work of the period.
Production
The painting is in the style of the Mughal provincial court painting, in particular Murshidabad school.
Subjects depicted
Officer
Terrace
Servants
Huqqa
Bibliographic references
  • Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) : p.48
  • Das, N. and Llewellyn-Jones, R. (eds.). Murshidabad: Forgotten Capital of Bengal, ISBN 978-81-921106-9-1. Marg, Mumbai, 2013. ISBN 978-81-921106-9-1. p. 24, pl. 6
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
D.1180-1903

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Record createdMarch 19, 2004
Record URL
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