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Accession number:
MS M.1019
Title:
[Ūdham Rām Chatī (Chinī), the beloved of Farrukhsiyar (r. 1713-19), standing under a willow tree].
Created:
[ca. 1725]
Credit:
Gift; Paul F. Walter; 1979.
Description:
1 single leaf : paper, ill. ; 388 x 249 mm.
Provenance:
Sir Robert A.W. Dent, London (possibly collected by his forebears, either John Dent, who was in India from 1782 to 1792, or William Dent, who was there from 1776 to 1796); his sale, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 11, 1972, lot 121; Paul F. Walter.
Notes:
Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in Andhra Prades, perhaps in Hyderabad, ca. 1725.
Inscription identifies the subject of the illumination.
Miniature measures 184 x 89 mm.
Language:
Inscription in Persian.
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