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A lady in an interiorfront

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A lady in an interior

  • loan

  • Description

    A lady of classic Kangra charm gazes into the glowing coals of a wheeled brazier that warms her chamber. She holds her hookah tube beneath her quilted shawl. She has been singing, and her green tanpura rests beside her. With European-inspired naturalism, the candle under its shade in the left foreground throws flickering shadows of the lady and maid on the wall behind.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › north-west India › Punjab Hills (place of creation)
    Date
    1810 - 1820
    Material and technique
    gouache with gold and silver on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 38 x 29.6 x 2.1 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 20.3 x 13.5 cm sight size (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold,
    processed material › metal › silver
    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.
    LI118.118

  • 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. 76 on p. 178, illus. p. 179

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