Painting
late 17th century (made)
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This study of a narcissus is included in the "Small Clive Album", a volume of Indian paintings which is thought to have been given by Shuja ad-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh, to Lord Clive during his last visit to India in 1765-67. It contains 56 folios on which are Mughal paintings, drawings and flower studies dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. The binding is covered with an Indian brocade. The album was given to the museum by Mr John Goelet in 1956.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted in opaque watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, Small Clive Album p. 97, a narcissus plant, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, late 17th century |
| Physical description | Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, the narcissus plant is painted on a plain ivory-coloured ground. The plant rises from a grassy base with five sage-green curving leaves and a flowering stem bearing five flower-heads with yellow centres and white outer petals. The four upper flowers curve over towards the left and the lowermost blossom has a looped narrow stem curving to the right with the flower in a full-frontal central position across the stem. The painting has an inner border of buff-coloured strips of paper with ruled lines on either side and a further two at its outer margin. The main border is of a plain ivory colour with applied strips of greyish-green paper at its three outer margins and a beige-coloured stripof woven textile on the inner left hand margin added as a gutter for the present album binding. The margins also have ruled black lines. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | The painting is inscribed in Persian with the number 49 on the lower left hand side. On the lower right hand side the word nargis in Persian script is inscribed. This translates as 'narcissus'. The border is inscribed in pencil with the numeral '49' on the top right hand corner.
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| Credit line | Gift of Mr. John Goelet |
| Object history | This miniature painting is part of the Small Clive Album of Indian miniatures which is thought to have been given by Shuja ud-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh, to Lord Clive during his last visit to India in 1765-67. It contains 56 leaves on which are Mughal miniature paintings, drawing and flower studies on both sides. The binding is covered with an Indian brocade silk that may have been cut from lengths brought home by the 2nd Lord Clive, who served as Governor of Madras, 1799 to 1803. The album was sold from Powis Castle at Sotheby's sale, 16 to 18 January 1956, lot 332A. |
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| Summary | This study of a narcissus is included in the "Small Clive Album", a volume of Indian paintings which is thought to have been given by Shuja ad-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh, to Lord Clive during his last visit to India in 1765-67. It contains 56 folios on which are Mughal paintings, drawings and flower studies dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. The binding is covered with an Indian brocade. The album was given to the museum by Mr John Goelet in 1956. |
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| Accession number | IS.48:49/A-1956 |
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| Record created | January 22, 2004 |
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