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Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin

(from 2nd Feb until 22nd Apr 2012)

Explore the remarkable collection of Indian paintings and drawings of the artist Howard Hodgkin.

Detail of Maharaja Dhiraj Singh riding, Raghugarh, India, c.1700 (Museum No: LI118.34)
A hero wrestles a div, or demonfront

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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
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › 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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