Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
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Nawab Shuja' ud-Daula of Awadh
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Description
This portrait showing the Nawab Shuja ud-Daula in three-quarter face is based on an oil-painting by the English artist Tilly Kettle, who worked in India from 1769-1776.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India › Uttar Pradesh › Awadh › Faizabad district › Faizabad (place of creation)
- Date
- 1772 - 1775
- Artist/maker
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Mihr Chand (active c. 1765 - c. 1775) (artist)after Tilly Kettle (1735 - 1786) (artist)
- Associated people
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Shuja' ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh (ruled 1754 - 1775) (subject)possibly Colonel Antoine Polier (1741 - 1795) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 55.4 x 40.1 cm (height x width)
page 40.3 x 28.4 cm (height x width)
painting 12.5 x 10.4 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by the Pilgrim Trust, to commemorate the Directorship of Sir David Piper, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.11
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Further reading
Falk, Toby, and Brendan Lynch, Images of India (London: Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, 1989)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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