Object number1996.15.8

Portrait of Bahadur Shah

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: 8 [circled]; upper center in Arabic: [name]; center in Dutch: Deze is de achtste / Koning van het / Hindostanse rijk / genaamt Bhadur,, / ,,cha. [This is the eight king of the Hindustani empire, named Bahadur Shah.]

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 man, Bahadur Shah, in profile as he holds a small object in his left hand and a strand of beads in his right hand. He is dressed in an orange patterned garment belted with a red and gold sash 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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