Object number1996.15.7

Portrait of Aurangzeb

Date1700s

Artist Currently Unidentified

CultureIndian [Northern]

MediumOpaque watercolor and gold on paper

DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23 x 15 cm)

Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections: Gift of Ruth Lamb Atkinson, class of 1918

On View

Not on view

PeriodLate 18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper right corner in ink: 7 [circled]: upper center in Arabic: [name]; center in Dutch: Dit is de zevende Mo,, / ,,narch van Hindos,, / ,,tan in name cha / Aurengzeeb. [This is the seventh monarch of Hindostan, named Aurangzeb.]

Vassar Exhibitions

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryPeoples of Asia Hall, extended loan to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; August 1980 - September 1995;

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 24 - April 23, 2017
DescriptionDepiction of a seated, hunched man, Aurangzeb, in profile as he holds a small object in his left hand and points his index and middle finger upward with his right hand. He is dressed in colors of white, green, and orange and wears strands of pearls and other jewels. A halo gleams around his head and he sits against a plain blue background and white ground.

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