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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4591

Classmark
  • I. 4591
Title
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Collection

Content

Title

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  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • Album with miniatures (mostly pictures of women) and calligraphic pieces, mainly in the Mughal style of the second half of the 18th century; but also earlier works, including a calligraphic piece in Nastaʿlīq, signed by Muḥammad Darvīsh al-Samarqandī (dated 1042/1632-33), a yogini playing music from the Deccan (Bijapur, 2nd quarter of the 17th century, f. 13a) and a bust painting of Mary based on a European model (f. 12b, ascribed to the Mughal painter Bālchand, but stylistically 18th century). Six leaves (f. 10-15) come from a predecessor album owned by Bayram Khān (Mughal officer active ca. 1750-60), for which margins from the mid-16th century were reused, dedicated to the Shybanid Uzbek ruler ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Khān (r. 1539-51). Another album leaf probably comes from an album of Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān (d. after 1781), as it bears his seal impression (f. 24b).
Completeness
Language
Script
Editions/Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors (Islamic Manuscripts and Books, vol. 23) / Weis, Friederike (ed.). Leiden/Boston: Brill, forthcoming.
    [f. 12a = fig. 16.7 and 16.8; f. 16b = fig. 10.16; f. 24b = 16.4 and 16.5; f. 25b = fig. 16.2 and 16.3]
    *
    Weis, Friederike:
    A Crouching Woman at her Toilette: Venus or Radha? Cross-cultural Connoisseurship of an Indian Album Motif.
    In: Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global 18th Century / Kristel Smentek, Valérie Kobi und Chonja Lee (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 69–86.
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110985085-005
    [f. 3b-4a = fig. 7; f. 17b-18a = fig. 5]
    *
    Weis, Friederike:
    Confident Women in Indo-Persianate Albums: Visual Metaphors or Ethnography?
    In: Motion: Transformation (35th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts, Florence, 1–6 September 2019) / Marzia Faietti and Gerhard Wolf (eds.). Bologna: Bononia University Press, S. 93–98.
    Open Access: download Volume 1 via https://buponline.com/prodotto/motion-transformation/
    [f. 10b-11a = fig. 3]
    *
  • Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    *
    Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Çoruh und Hendrik Budde (eds.). Berlin: Nicolai 2009.
    [f. 11a = cat.no. XIV/24; f. 13a = cat.no. XIV/21; f. 17b = illus. on p. 184]
    *
    Hutton, Deborah:
    Art of the Court of Bijapur. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006.
    [f. 13a = fig. 3.6]
    *
    Harris, Lucian:
    Archibald Swinton: A New Source for Albums of Indian Miniatures in William Beckford's Collection.
    In: The Burlington Magazine 143/1179 (June 2001), pp. 360–366.
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/889039
    [f. 12b = fig. 49; f. 13a = fig. 51]
    *
    Museum für Islamische Kunst: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Mainz: von Zabern, 2001.
    [f. 13a = p. 149]
    *
  • Zebrowski, Marc:
    Deccani Painting. London: Sotheby's, 1983.
    [f. 13a = fig. 90 and pl. 15]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (ed.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    [f. 3a = pl. 16; f. 8a = pl. 56; f. 13a = pl. 15]
Remarks
  • This is probably one of the eight albums mentioned in lot 80 of the Christie's auction catalogue of 6 June 1810:
    "A Catalogue of a very valuable collection of Persian, and a few Arabic MSS. selected many years ago, in the East, by Archibald Swinton, Esq. ... which will be sold by auction, etc Von Archibald SWINTON (Captain, H.E.I.C.S.)".
    Google Books: https://www.google.de/books/edition/ACatalogueofaveryvaluablecollectio/BxWzN3Swc_YC?hl=de&gbpv=1&

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Boxing
  • 33.2 x 25.4 cm
Binding
  • red leather binding with golden lines and three floral ornaments on the front and back cover; spine with gilded floral ornaments and the inscription 'Tusveerā[n] 7'

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound; f. 22 incomplete; f. 23 missing
Number of folios
  • originally 25; European pagination
Dimensions
  • 32.5 x 23.3 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • heterogeneous margins: partly dense floral patterns or simply coloured margins in 18th-century style, partly several borders with gold ornaments, partly Uzbek margins with Shybanid cartouche inscriptions from the 16th century (f. 10b, 11a, 12b, 13a, 14b, 15a), partly reddish and blue-green margins sprinkled with gold
Miniatures
  • 23 miniatures, 13 calligraphic pieces

History of the object

Entstehung

Date
↳ autograph
  • 16th to 18th centuries
Place of MS
↳ autograph
  • India
place identifier

Provenienz

Provenienz
  • 1882
  • London
  • acquired by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett from the 12th Duke of Hamilton, handed over to the Königliche Museum für Völkerkunde (Royal Museum of Ethnology) in 1891
  • 1844
  • Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • passed into possession of the Hamilton family through marriage of Alexander Hamilton Douglas (10th Duke of Hamilton) with Susan Euphemia Beckford
  • 1810 (?)
  • London
  • presumably acquired from Christie's on 6 June 1810 as part of lot 80; bequeathed on Beckford's death in 1844 to his daughter Susan Euphemia
  • between 1752 and 1766
  • India
  • acquired during his stay in India
  • f. 24b:
    seal dated 1155/1742-43
Provenience information
  • Other: f. 10a, 11b, 12a, 13b, 14a, 15b:
    1. seal of Bayram Khān Ḥusaynī
    بیرم خان حسینی
    1.0 x 1.2 cm
    2. seal of Bayram Khān Bahādur Mīr Mīrān 1168 aḥad (= 1754-55, regnal year 1 of ʿĀlamgīr II [r. 1754-59])
    بیرم خان بهادور میر میران ۱۱۶۸ احد
    0.9 x 1.1 cm
    *
  • Other: f. 10b, 12b, 15a:
    عبد العزیز
    بهدور خان
    خلده ملکه
    ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
    Bahādur Khān
    khallada mulkahu
    Abd al-ʿAzīz Bahādur Khān, may [God] perpetuate his kingdom
    *
    f. 11a, 13a, 14b:
    فی ایام الدواه
    الخاقان الاعدل
    ابوالغازی
    fī-ayyām al-dawlah
    al-khāqān al-aʿadal
    Abū-l-Ghāzī
    in the days of the reign of the most just ruler Abū-l-Ghāzī
  • Other: f. 24b:
    seal of Ghulām Ḥusayn-Khān 1155/1742-43
    غلام حسین خان ۱۱۵۵
    1.3 x 2.0 cm
    *
  • Other: f. 25b:
    jarīdah-i hafdah varaq
    ba-tārīkh-i hafdahum-i shahr-i Ṣafar sanah 1176 Hijrī
    ba-shumār āmad h
    جریده هفده ورق
    بتاریخ هفدهم شهر صفر سنه ۱۱۷۶ هجری
    بشمارآمد ه
    album of seventeen leaves, counted on 17. Ṣafar 1176/07.09.1762

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Collection
Classmark
  • I. 4591
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  • old classmark : IC 24338
Editor
  • Weis
status of edit
  • First input complete
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