album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.11.19
- Title
- Series: Indian Drawings
- Description
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Composite image of peri riding a horse; single-page tinted drawing mounted in an album. A composite image formed of various animals, birds and a young girl depicts a peri, or winged female, wielding a flag and riding a horse. A small composite dog appears beneath the horse. Album contains 60 Indian drawings and paintings.
Ink, wash and gold on paper. Album bound in black leather with pages of European paper, watermarked 1799.
- Production date
- 18thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.30 centimetres (drawing)
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Height: 34 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 32.70 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 2.90 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 11.20 centimetres (drawing)
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Width: 22 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 19.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1920,0917,0.11 .1-.62 for all folios included in this album.
See 1920,0917,0.11.1 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.11.19
