album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1984,0124,0.1.15
- Description
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Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of the Taj Mahal in Agra. The painting shows the central tomb surrounded by four white minarets on a plinth. Below the plinth is a garden split in the middle by a channel of water. Trees are shown growing behind the Taj Mahal.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.70 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The painting is in an album bound in leather with blind tooling and patterned endpapers.
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This painting is from an album of sixty paintings (1984,0124,0.1.1-60) that illustrates Sikh rulers, architecture and trades and occupations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-16 14 November - 15 May, London, BM, 'Life and sole: Footwear from the Islamic world'
- Acquisition date
- 1984
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1984,0124,0.1.15