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Music party on a riverside terracefront

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Music party on a riverside terrace

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  • Description

    A music party takes place on the terrace of one of the noblemen’s havelis or garden mansions that once lined the Jumna river at Agra, upstream from the Taj Mahal. The Muslim noble who hosts this soirée presides against a flowered gold cushion. Holding a rose, he gazes with grave courtesy at his chief guest, who shares the same floor-spread.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › north India (probable place of creation)
    Asia › India › Deccan (possible place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1670
    Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
    Material and technique
    gouache with gold on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 46.9 x 39.2 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 33.5 x 25.5 cm max. (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.21

  • 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. 19 on p. 60, p. 18, illus. p. 61

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