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.
Maharaja Medini Pal smoking a hookah
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Description
The youthful Basohli ruler Medini Pal, who died aged 22 in 1736, sits smoking on a garden terrace. A young concubine waits upon him, tending his hookah and holding a quid of pan (betel leaf) which she will presently offer to the keen-eyed Raja. He wears the same Mughal jewelled pendant as his grandfather Kirpal Pal, depicted in the previous painting [LI118.37].
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north-west India › Jammu and Kashmir › Kathua district › Basohli (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1730
- Associated people
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Medini Pal, Maharaja of Basohli (ruled 1722 - 1736) (subject)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold, silver, and beetle-wing case on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 46.8 x 37.3 cm (height x width)
painting 33.5 x 24.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.90
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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. 63 on p. 150, illus. p. 151
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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