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A couple with ladies. Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90), style of.

Catalogue reference: Johnson 1,26

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Johnson 1,26
Title
A couple with ladies. Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90), style of.
Date
c 1775
Description

A couple with ladies. Style of Bahadur Singh, Lucknow, c.1775. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 41 in Persian inventory note. Gouache with gold; unfinished; a blank paper panel remains between the picture and top border, on an album leaf with inner blue and outer gilt-sprinkled borders. 225 by 178 mm; page 506 by 360 mm. On a terrace a young man kneels on a couch while his lady reclines sleeping beside him. Two of her maidens attend at head and foot, and a third talks with the man. A door is set in a garden wall behind.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Former department reference
J.1,26
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Physical condition
Medium: opaque watercolour.
Unpublished finding aids
Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 255iii
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/93607530-6aa1-4ac4-80d6-35ef0c4c65ee/

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A couple with ladies. Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90), style of.