album(bound);
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.11.12
- Title
- Series: Portraits of Indian Princes
- Description
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Portrait of Shivaji; painting mounted onto an album folio. Inscribed. Album contains 26 paintings of Indian princes.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Album bound in red leather and stamped on both covers with a central medallion, spine decorated with gold leaf. Interior cover marbled.
- Production date
- 1680-1687
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.10 centimetres (album)
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Height: 17.30 centimetres (large page)
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Height: 14.70 centimetres (small page)
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Thickness: 1.80 centimetres (album)
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Width: 10.70 centimetres (album)
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Width: 8.20 centimetres (large page)
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Width: 7 centimetres (small page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1974,0617,0.11.1-26 for all folios included in this album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2013-2014 24 Oct-27 April, BM, G69a, 'Wise men from the East: Zoroastrian traditions in Persia and beyond' (1974,0617,0.11.1 displayed)
2009-2010 10 Oct-17 Jan, London, V&A, 'Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts' (part 12 displayed)
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- From an album purchased by the British Museum on 9 January 1858 at Boocke’s sale, lot 130. Formerly album Add 22282 / Or 54. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB) in 1974.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.11.12
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 22282
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Miscellaneous number: Or. 54
