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[DE-SMB-AKU] I 5005

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  • I 5005
Title
  • [Album of Topographical Views and Calligraphy]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album of Topographical Views and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • The album was produced for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741–1795) between 1780 and 1787 in Lucknow (Awadh, today's Uttar Pradesh). After a stay of 30 years in India, Polier returned to Europe, embarking from Calcutta (Kolkata) in January 1788.
    The floral decoration of the margins is typical of Polier's workshop in Lucknow. The calligraphic pieces are dated 1195/1780-81, 1196/1781-82, and 1199/1784-85. They are partly signed by contemporary calligraphers such as Muhammad ʿAli (active in Lucknow between ca. 1760-1795).
    A similar album is the so called Lady Coote Album, a gift by Polier to Lady Coote (born Susanna Hutchinson, d. 1812), the wife of Sir Eyre Coote (1726-1783).
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Editions/Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors (Islamic Manuscripts and Books, vol. 23) / Friederike Weis (ed.). Leiden/Boston : Brill, forthcoming.
    [table 7.2; f. 10a = fig. 15.18; f. 11a = fig. 15.19; f. 15b-16a = fig. 7.9]
    *
  • India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow / Stephen Markel with Tushara Bindu Gude (eds.). München et al.: DelMonico/Prestel, 2010.
    [f. 2a = cat.no. 130; f. 8a = cat.no. 152; f. 10a = cat.no. 132; f. 14a = cat.no. 185; f. 16a = cat.no. 131]
    *
    Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Çoruh and Hendrik Budde (eds.). Berlin: Nicolai, 2009.
    [f. 13a = cat. no. IV/22]
    *
    Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo and Kristin Vartanian:
    Earthly Paradise and Heavenly Beauty – Courtly Arts under the Mughals.
    In: Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift 10 (2006), pp. 62-71.
    [f. 10a = fig. 4]
    *
    Islamische Kunst in Berliner Sammlungen: 100 Jahre Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin / Désirée Heiden and Jens Kröger (eds.). Berlin: Parthas 2004.
    [f. 6a = cat.no. 173; f. 14a = cat.no. 172]
    *
    Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo:
    Celestial Gardens: Mughal Miniatures from an Eighteenth Century Album.
    In: Orientations 31/9 (2000), pp. 69-74.
    [f. 1a = fig. 4; f. 3a = fig. 5; f. 10a = fig. 6; f. 11a; fig. 1; f. 14a = fig. 2]
    *
  • Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo:
    Das Paradies liegt in Hindustan... Die Darstellung des islamischen Gartens in der Moghulmalerei.
    In: Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift 2 (1998), pp. 64-80.
    [f. 3a = fig. 6; f. 10a = fig. 4; f. 11a = fig. 5]
    *
    Hauptman, William:
    Beckford, Brandoin, and the ‘Rajah’ : Aspects of an Eighteenth-Century Collection.
    In: Apollo: International Magazine of Art 143/411 (1996), pp. 30-39.
    [f. 15a = fig. 11]
    *
    Petruccioli, Attilio:
    Die Gärten der Moghuln in Kashmir.
    In: Der islamische Garten: Architektur, Natur, Landschaft / Attilio Petruccioli (ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1995.
    [f. 3a = illus. on p. 265; f. 11a = illus. on p. 105]
    *
  • Weber, Rolf:
    Porträts und historische Darstellungen in der Miniaturensammlung des Museums für Indische Kunst (Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Indische Kunst Berlin, vol. 6). Berlin: Museum für Indische Kunst, 1982.
    [= Appendix 2, pp. 574-576; f. 6a = fig. 113;  f. 7a = fig. 58; f. 8a = fig. 98; f. 12a = fig. 62; f. 15a = fig. 92]
    *
  • Brentjes, Burchard:
    Chane, Sultane, Emire: Der Islam vom Zusammenbruch des Timuridenreiches bis zur europäischen Okkupation. Leipzig: Koehler und Amelang, 1974.
    [f. 10a = fig. 131; f. 15a = fig. 129; f. 2a = fig. 118; f. 7a = fig. 128]
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Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • binding missing

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound, loose folios, each with one page of calligraphy and one page of painting
Number of folios
  • 16, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 46.0 x 62.5 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 16 miniatures (mostly topographic views), 15 calligraphic compositions, and one empty dedicatory rosette (shamsa)

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

1780-1787 in Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), Lucknow (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4277882-7, GND: 4111406-1)

  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signatures of Muḥammad ʿAlī on f. 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 9b, 10b, 11b, 12b, 13b, and 15b
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 3b (central calligraphic piece in Shikastah)
Colophon
  • leere Widmungsrosette (Shamsa) auf f. 16b
  • empty dedicatory rosette on f. 16b

Provenance

Provenance
  • 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
  • 1799-1800
  • Lausanne
  • presumably acquired from the guardian of Polier's sons
  • 1780-1787
  • Lucknow, Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), India
  • produced between 1780 and 1787 for

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I 5005
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24353
Editor
  • Weis
Status of edit
  • finished
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https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000003
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DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000003 (XML view)
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