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.
Galleries : 132 objects
Prince Azam Shah enters Ahmedabad
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Description
Azam Shah (1653-1707), the third son of Aurangzeb, governed Gujarat from 1701-1705. Arriving in the city of Ahmedabad, he is carried in a palanquin while his son Wala Jah follows on horseback. Townspeople, women and children throng the street above, and quarrels break out as people scramble for coins thrown to the crowd. This remarkable drawing is attributable to Chitarman, later the leading painter of the emperor Muhammad Shah (r.1719-1748).
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India (place of creation)Asia › India › west India › Gujarat › Ahmadabad (subject)
- Date
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1701
Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
- Artist/maker
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attributed to Kalyan Das, Chitarman (active c. 1700 - 1750) (artist)
- Associated people
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Prince Azam Shah (1653 - 1707) (subject)Prince Wala Jah (died 1707) (subject)
- Material and technique
- brush drawing with colour and gold on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 47.2 x 73.5 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
mount 35.6 x 61.7 cm (height x width)
painting 33.1 x 59 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.22
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Further reading
Guy, John, and Britschgi, Jorrit, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), no. 72 on p. 143
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 31 on p. 80, p. 18, illus. pp. 81, 82-83
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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