[DE-SMB-AKU] I 5063 — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy] — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy]

Title	[DE-SMB-AKU] I 5063 — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy] — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy]
Publication Date:	autograph: 1784-1787
Publication Place	Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz - Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Type	Book
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	22
Physical Dimensions	39.8 x 28.2 cm
Library:	Qalamos
Library Asset ID	I 5063
Record ID	DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000006
Library Location	Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Date	autograph: 1784-1787
Notes	brown leather binding with gilded embossing at the edges and in the centre — margins with floral decoration — black, red — paper — The album was made for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741–1795) between 1784 and 1787 in Lucknow (Awadh, present-day Uttar Pradesh). Polier travelled back to Europe from Calcutta (Kolkata) in January 1788 after a thirty-year stay in India. The margins decorated with floral motifs are typical of the album workshop that worked exclusively for Polier in Lucknow. Most of the calligraphies (f. 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 9a, 10a, 13a, 16a, 17a, 20a) are signed by the contemporary calligrapher Muḥammad ʿAlī or can be attributed to him (f. 8a, f. 21a); some are dated 1195/1780-81 and 1196/1781-82. The dedicatory rosette on f. 22b indicates Polier's military rank as a colonel, to which he was only promoted on 15 April 1782. Most of the miniatures show portraits of the Mughal rulers and their Timurid ancestors, as listed in the genealogical tree on f. 1a (f. 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b, 12b, 13b, 21b), beginning with Tīmūr (1336–1405) and ending with Shāh ʿĀlam II (r. 1760-1806). F. 17b contains a portrait of the Iranian conqueror of India Nādir Shāh (1688–1747), f. 20b a portrait of Aḥmad Shāh Abdālī (1722–1772), the founder of the Durrani Empire (present-day Afghanistan). The portrait of the Mughal crown prince Mīrzā Javān Bakht (1749-1788) on f. 1b was created for Warren Hastings (1732–1818) after an oil portrait dated June 1784 by the British painter of German origin Johan Zoffany (1733–1810).
Sınıf numarası	I 5063
Koleksiyon	Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Editör	Weis
Lisans	CC0 1.0
Düzenleme durumu	finished

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[DE-SMB-AKU] I 5063 — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy] — [Album with Portraits of Rulers and Calligraphy]

Publication Date autograph: 1784-1787

Publication Place Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz - Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Type Book

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 22

Physical Dimensions 39.8 x 28.2 cm

Library Qalamos

Library Asset ID I 5063

Record ID DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000006

Library Location Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Date autograph: 1784-1787

Notes brown leather binding with gilded embossing at the edges and in the centre — margins with floral decoration — black, red — paper — The album was made for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741–1795) between 1784 and 1787 in Lucknow (Awadh, present-day Uttar Pradesh). Polier travelled back to Europe from Calcutta (Kolkata) in January 1788 after a thirty-year stay in India. The margins decorated with floral motifs are typical of the album workshop that worked exclusively for Polier in Lucknow. Most of the calligraphies (f. 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 9a, 10a, 13a, 16a, 17a, 20a) are signed by the contemporary calligrapher Muḥammad ʿAlī or can be attributed to him (f. 8a, f. 21a); some are dated 1195/1780-81 and 1196/1781-82. The dedicatory rosette on f. 22b indicates Polier's military rank as a colonel, to which he was only promoted on 15 April 1782. Most of the miniatures show portraits of the Mughal rulers and their Timurid ancestors, as listed in the genealogical tree on f. 1a (f. 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b, 12b, 13b, 21b), beginning with Tīmūr (1336–1405) and ending with Shāh ʿĀlam II (r. 1760-1806). F. 17b contains a portrait of the Iranian conqueror of India Nādir Shāh (1688–1747), f. 20b a portrait of Aḥmad Shāh Abdālī (1722–1772), the founder of the Durrani Empire (present-day Afghanistan). The portrait of the Mughal crown prince Mīrzā Javān Bakht (1749-1788) on f. 1b was created for Warren Hastings (1732–1818) after an oil portrait dated June 1784 by the British painter of German origin Johan Zoffany (1733–1810).

Sınıf numarası I 5063

Koleksiyon Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Editör Weis

Lisans CC0 1.0

Düzenleme durumu finished