album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.35
- Description
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Shah Jahan and his sons visiting a saint; single-page tinted drawing on a detached album folio. Depiction of a devotion scene showing Shah Jahan and his sons visiting a saint. Drawing bordered by concentric gold and red frames and mounted onto an ornate page featuring various animals and a hunting party.
Ink and opaque watercolours on paper.
- Production date
- 18thC(Early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 29.20 centimetres (drawing)
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Height: 43.50 centimetres (sheet)
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Width: 20.90 centimetres (drawing)
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Width: 29.90 centimetres (sheet)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2022 30th May - 14th November, London, British Museum, G43
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- f.22 from an album purchased from Bernard Quaritch on 14 March 1857. Formerly Add 21928 / Or 36d. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.35