Material Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper
Dimensions 38 × 27.5 cm
Place of Creation India, Mughal school of Lucknow
Price Available upon inquiry
Status Vetted

About the Work

Inscription :

Mir Badr ud-din Khan Zafer Jang pesar kelan nawab E’temad ud-dawlah Qamr ud-din Khan : Mir Badr ud-din Khan Zafer Jang, eldest son of nawab E’temad ud-dawlah Qamr ud-din Khan


This page comes from an album (muraqqa) commissioned by a European who lived in Lucknow in the 18th century, bought by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872) in 1834 and dispersed with other pages from the same album, called Lucknow album, in London in 1974, at the second sale of the Bibliotheca Phillippica. Other pages of the Lucknow Album with similar margins, were dispersed in London in 1974.

The style of the borders of the Lucknow album corresponds very closely to that of the Hamilton albums, now in the Staatliches Museum für Insdische Kunst in Berlin. The latter had initially been produced on commission of the famous Swiss patron Antoine Louis Henri Polier (1741-1795) who had founded his own workshop in Lucknow.

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Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
Bibliotheca Phillippica, part IX, catalogue of Oriental manuscripts, Indian and Persian Miniatures, Sotheby & co, London, November 27 1974 : cat. 766.
Collection M. Vaghari, London
Collection F. & C. B., Paris

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