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Walters Ms. W.889, Single leaf of a portrait of a ruler

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Shelf mark

W.889


Manuscript

Single leaf of a portrait of a ruler


Text title
Portrait of a ruler

Abstract

This painting depicts a seated official resting against an orange bolster. It is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE and was produced in India. On the back is another portrait, painted at a later stage.


Date

1111-1163 AH / 1700-1750 CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

11.4 cm wide by 22.5 cm high


Contents:
fols. W.889a - W.889b:
  1. Title: Portrait of a ruler

Decoration:

fol. W.889a:

  1. W.889, fol. W.889a
  2. Title: Portrait of a ruler
  3. Form: Painting
  4. Label: This painting depicts a seated official resting against an orange bolster. It is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE and was produced in India.

fol. W.889b:

  1. W.889, fol. W.889b
  2. Title: Portrait
  3. Form: Painting
  4. Label: This image of a seated figure was painted at a later stage than the composition on the other side of the leaf. The work has eroded to a significant degree.

Acquisition

Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2001


Bibliography

Pal, Pratapaditya. Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Foundation. (London: Phillip Wilson, 2001), 163.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.