Object number1996.15.10
Portrait of Mahmet Shah
Date1700s
Artist
Currently Unidentified
CultureIndian
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 viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper right corner in ink: 10 [circled]; upper center in Arabic: [name]; center in Dutch: Den Mogolschen Monarch Mhamethcha. [The Mongol Monarch Mahmet Shah.]
Exhibition HistoryPeoples of Asia Hall, extended loan to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, August 1980 - September 1995
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Currently Unidentified
c. 1790-1800
Culture: Indian [possibly Punjab Hills]
