Watercolor with gouache and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 14 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches (37.1 x 53 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "The Shah Nujeef. Lucknow."; in graphite, on back of mount, center: "201"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.262
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | siege | military art | siege artillery | cannons | landscape | historical subject | conflict | men | soldiers | smoke | battle | mausoleum | mosques | walls | domes
Associated Places:
Shah Najaf | Asia | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | India
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)India's Fabled City - The Art of Courtly Lucknow (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2010-12-12 - 2011-02-27)India's Fabled City - The Art of Courtly Lucknow (Musee National of Asian Art Guimet, 2011-04-06 - 2011-07-11)Traces of India (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-10-15 - 2004-01-11)Traces of India (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2003-05-14 - 2003-09-14)Traces of India (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2004-03-07 - 2004-07-04)
Publications:
Stephen Markel, India's fabled city, the art of courtly Lucknow , Prestel, Munich New York, 2010, pp. 40, 260, no. 176, no. 176, N7308 L83 M37 2010 + (YCBA)