MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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MADONNA AND CHILD
MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
From the Warren Hastings Album, grisaille drawing with colour washes heightened with gold, Virgin and Child with an italianate city behind, in the style probably derived from a 16th century Italian original, mounted on an album page with salmon border and cream margins with gold lattice and flowerhead motif, the reverse with 6ll. of nasta'liq copied from a page of calligraphy by Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi, glazed, good condition
Folio 17 x 11in. (43 x 28.3cm.)

Provenance

The Warren Hastings Album
Bibliotheca Phillippica, sold at Sotheby's 27 November 1974, lot 806.

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Lot Essay

This is from the dispersed Warren Hastings Album, formely in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillips Bt (1792-1872). It was broken up and sold at Sotheby's 27 November 1974.

Warren Hastings (1732-1818) arrived in Calcutta in 1750 to serve in the British East India Company. He filled various official posts including Governor of Bengal, before being appointed Governor-General of India, 20 October 1774, a post which he held until 1788. See C.E. Buckland: Dictionary of Indian Biography, New York, 1968, pp.193-4.

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