A LARGE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
A LARGE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
A LARGE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
2 更多
A LARGE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF THE TAJ MAHAL

NORTH INDIA, 1810-15

細節
A LARGE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
NORTH INDIA, 1810-15
Charcoal and transluscent pigments on card, within thick black rules, the margins and reverse plain
Painting 24 ¾ x 38 3/8in. (62.9 x 97.4cm.); folio 25 ½ x 38 ½in. (64.9 x 97.7cm.)
來源
Imperial Past: India 1600-1900, Francesca Galloway, London, 2011
Private collection, Omaha, Nebraska
With Sam Fogg, London
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 31 March 2021, lot 49
出版
Francesca Galloway, Imperial Past, India 1600-1800, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 2011, cat. 2, pp. 20-21

榮譽呈獻

Phoebe Jowett Smith
Phoebe Jowett Smith Department Coordinator

查閱狀況報告或聯絡我們查詢更多拍品資料

登入
瀏覽狀況報告

拍品專文

This view of the Taj Mahal comes from an album of views of monuments of Agra made by Agra draughtsmen in the early 19th century (Francesca Galloway, Imperial Past, India 1600-1800, London, 2011, cats 1-20). Although the commissioning of albums of drawings of Mughal monuments in the style of European architectural studies was already popular in the early 19th century, this series was the first time that single- and double-point had been consistently used (J.P. Losty, “Architectural Drawings by Agra Draughtsmen”, op.cit., pp.13-15). Unlike the other paintings from the album there might be a European prototype for this particular view in the form of a painting by the eccentric indigo planter and artist Thomas Longcroft. Longcroft travelled to India in 1783 with his friend the artist Johan Zoffany and over the course of the 1780s and 1790s he created a series of drawings of Mughal monuments in Agra and Delhi, drawn in meticulous detail and normally finished with a wash. Longcroft’s only surviving drawing now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (acc.no.FA.654) shows the Taj Mahal from the same southwest view as the current painting. Views of the Taj Mahal but on a smaller scale have sold at Sotheby’s London, 1 May 2019, lot 126 and 10 June 2020, lot 148.

更多來自 伊斯蘭與印度世界藝術品包括地毯

查看全部
查看全部