LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache heightened with gold on paper, ruled in red, blue and white

Measurements:

2.95 in. (7.50 cm.) (height) by 2.24 in. (5.70 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed, signed and dated in nasta’liq script 'amal-i kamtarin bandah-i dargah Daulat’ ('the work of the most insignificant servant of the court, Daulat'), [regnal] 'year 22'

Exhibited:

The Indian Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010

Literature:

Beach-Koch-Thackston 1997, p.210 & p.215, under Dawlat ( sic) 46, footnote 3, fig.139. Beach-Fischer-Goswamy 2011, pp.308, 316 & 320, fig.11. Crill and Jariwala 2010, pp.74-75, no.13

Provenance:

Acquired in London in 1980