Holy man with prince and attendants

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio; Holy man with prince and attendants; inscriptions on the border read: (on the left margin) portrait of Shah Qasim Anwar, and (on the right margin) Baysunqur Mirza.

  Borders: The painting is set in gold and black rulings surrounded by a blue inner frame and a gold outer frame, mounted on gold-sprinkled paperboard.

• Marks

  Old matting: 307 B written in pencil

  Old matting: H. Vever written in black ink and underlined

  Old matting: 4 written in blue pencil and underlined

  Old matting: 4 written in blue pencil and underlined

• Inscriptions

  Right margin, Baysunqur [sic] Mirza; left margin, tasvir shah Qasim Anwar.

  Right margin, Baysunqur [sic] Mirza; left margin, tasvir shah Qasim Anwar.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Origin

  Northern India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1910s, 1890s

• Place

  India

• Topic

  Prayer beads, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Prince, Art, Animals, Holy man, Henri Vever collection, Horses, Attendant

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings