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A hero wrestles a div, or demon

  • Description

    A stocky hero wrestles a fierce div (demon), lifting and overturning him. Overcoming demons was a speciality of Rustam, a hero of the Persian Shahnama epic, but this unassuming figure lacks his usual war-like accoutrements. This coloured drawing closely follows in reverse a 15th century Turcoman composition found in one of the famous Siyah Qalam album paintings in the Topkapi Library, Istanbul.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India (place of creation)
    Asia › India › Deccan (possible place of creation)
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan (possible place of creation)
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Kota (place of creation)
    Date
    late 17th century
    Material and technique
    gouache with ink and gold on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 37 x 36.1 x 2.1 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 23.8 x 22.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Howard Hodgkin, 2013.
    Accession no.
    EA2013.30

  • Further reading

    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. 46 on p. 114, illus. p. 115

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India

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