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PROBABLY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1700
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AN ALBUM COMPRISING PORTRAITS OF INDIAN RULERS AND NOBLES
PROBABLY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1700
Opaque and transparent pigments heightened with gold on paper, 182ff., plus 10 flyleaves, comprising 174 painted standing and seated portraits of Mughal and Rajput rulers and noblemen, each laid down within dark blue margins, the reverse with identification and folio numbers in devanagari script, further numbering in Roman numerals to top right corner, flyleaves of folios two and four with 18th century Italian inscriptions in brown ink, in original brown morocco with gold tooled decoration, lacking spine, quires loosely bound, some folios loose in binding, the corners scuffed
Paintings 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (18.8 x 11.8 cm.); folio: 9 x 7 1/8 in. (22.9 x 18.2 cm.)
PROBABLY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1700
Opaque and transparent pigments heightened with gold on paper, 182ff., plus 10 flyleaves, comprising 174 painted standing and seated portraits of Mughal and Rajput rulers and noblemen, each laid down within dark blue margins, the reverse with identification and folio numbers in devanagari script, further numbering in Roman numerals to top right corner, flyleaves of folios two and four with 18th century Italian inscriptions in brown ink, in original brown morocco with gold tooled decoration, lacking spine, quires loosely bound, some folios loose in binding, the corners scuffed
Paintings 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (18.8 x 11.8 cm.); folio: 9 x 7 1/8 in. (22.9 x 18.2 cm.)
Provenance
The album was probably in the collection of Giovanbattista Baldini in Piacenza, 1654–1725.
Literature
Supplementi al Giornale de' Letterati d'Italia, Venezia, appresso Gio. Battista Hertz, 1726,
pp.337-376
Opere fisico-mediche stampate e manoscritte del kavalier di Antonio Vallisneri raccolte da Antonio suo figliuolo, tomo III, Venezia, appresso Sebastiano Coleti, 1733, pp.243-254
Giulio Ferrario, Aggiunte e rettificazioni all'opera Il costume moderno di tutti i popoli, Milano, dalla Tipografia dell'Autore, 1831, pp.116-125
pp.337-376
Opere fisico-mediche stampate e manoscritte del kavalier di Antonio Vallisneri raccolte da Antonio suo figliuolo, tomo III, Venezia, appresso Sebastiano Coleti, 1733, pp.243-254
Giulio Ferrario, Aggiunte e rettificazioni all'opera Il costume moderno di tutti i popoli, Milano, dalla Tipografia dell'Autore, 1831, pp.116-125
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