Accession number
MS M.1019
Object title
[Ūdham Rām Chatī (Chinī), the beloved of Farrukhsiyar (r. 1713-19), standing under a willow tree].
Display Date
[ca. 1725]
Created
[ca. 1725]
Credit line
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.
Inscription identifies the subject of the illumination.
Miniature measures 184 x 89 mm.
Language
Inscription in Persian.
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