ISBN:
9789004715783
Language:
English
Pages:
440 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Tabellen
Series Statement:
Islamic manuscripts and books volume 23
Series Statement:
Islamic manuscripts and books
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs
DDC:
744.4/29927095409033
Keywords:
Muraqqas History 18th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums (muraqqa's) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums - now in Berlin, Baroda, London, Paris, and Manchester - were assembled for or collected by the Mughal nawabs of Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), local elites in Bengal and Bihar, as well as Europeans. The book not only presents hitherto rarely investigated material, but also provides general information and many new discoveries based on first-hand codicological study and historical research. It will significantly expand our knowledge of the production, collecting practices, and audiences of muraqqa's in eighteenth-century India"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : problems and challenges in the study of eighteenth-century Indian albums / Friederike Weis -- The Indian paintings from the collection of Archibald Swinton, formerly at Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire / A Report by J.P. Losty, edited by Malini Roy and Friederike Weis -- Obvious narratives and hidden messages in the large Clive Album / Axel Langer -- Two late Mughal albums in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle : further evidence for the collections of Nawab Asaf al-Dawla / Emily Hannam -- Mughal art on its own terms : reflections on an album folio / Laura Parodi -- Three albums of Seigneur Gentil and colonel Polier : cultural exchanges in late eighteenth-century India / Susan Stronge -- To be viewed from both ends : the surviving Polier albums / Friederike Weis -- A newly identified Muraqqa? Assembled for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier in the British Museum / Malini Roy with a contribution by Jake Benson -- Like a Garden Bedecked : floral margins in the Muraqqa's of Antoine Polier / Isabelle Imbert -- The earlier calligraphies in the Berlin albums : reflections on their origins and purpose in a Muraqqa? / Claus-Peter Haase -- Polier's posterior album : Rylands Persian ms 10 / Jake Benson -- Expanding the canon : Mir Muhammad Husayn 'Ata Khan and the Polier albums / Will Kwiatkowski -- Mihr Chand's copies and adaptations of earlier Mughal paintings / John Seyller -- The spaces in between : a Yogini of Lucknow for Antoine Polier / Molly Aitken -- Building worlds : reading spatiality, power, and gaze in eighteenth-century paintings / Parul Singh -- Appendix : inscriptions and seal impressions in the Berlin albums I. 4589, I. 4591, I. 4592, I 5001, and I. 4600 / Will Kwiatkowski and Friederike Weis.
