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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4597

Shelfmark
  • I. 4597
Title
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • The album was completed for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741–1795) in Lucknow between June 1784 and December 1787 at the earliest, before Polier left India from Calcutta in January 1788. This is evident from a miniature copy of an oil portrait of the Mughal crown prince Mīrzā Jawān Bakht (1749-1788) (f. 13a), which Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) created in the summer of 1784 for Colonel Claude Martin (1735-1800) in Lucknow.
    The album is composed of double pages, each with a calligraphy – mostly in Nastaʿlīq – on the left and a miniature on the right. The calligraphic pieces, 26 of which are signed, date mainly from the 18th century. Most of them are signed by the Lucknow calligrapher Muḥammad ʿAlī and dated between 1195/1780-81 and 1199/1784-85. Some older pieces can be found on f. 6v (dated 1006/1597-98), 8v, 20v (1079/1668-69), 30v (1065/1654-55).
Completeness
Language
Script
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. 6b = fig. 10.20; f. 7a = fig. 9.5;  f. 33a = fig. 9.24]
    *
  • India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow / Stephen Markel with Tushara Bindu Gude (eds.). München et al.: DelMonico/Prestel, 2010.
    [f. 13a = cat.no. 122]
    *
    Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    [f. 2a = fig. 29; f. 5a = fig. 19; f. 7a = fig. 52; f. 30a = fig. 1; f. 37a = fig. 53]
    *
  • Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Çoruh und Hendrik Budde (eds.). Berlin: Nicolai 2009.
    [f. 8b = cat.no. IV/8; f. 25a = cat.no. XIV/23, illus. on p. 184]
    *
    Haase, Clause-Peter:
    Kalligraphische Meisterwerke.
    In: Islamische Kunst in Berliner Sammlungen: 100 Jahre Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin
    / Désirée Heiden und Jens Kröger (eds.). Berlin: Parthas, 2004, S. 116-122.
    [f. 8b = fig. 89]
    *
    Museum für Islamische Kunst: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Mainz: von Zabern, 2001.
    [f. 8b = illus on p. 148]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (ed.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    [f. 8b = pl. 36; f. 20b = pl. 44; f. 27a = pl. 49]
    *

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • missing

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound, loose folios, each with one page of calligraphy and one page of painting; . 23, 26, 31 and 32 incomplete or missing
Number of folios
  • 40, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 40.0 x 28.5 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 37 miniatures, 35 calligraphic compositions, one empty rosette (Shamsa)

History of the object

Entstehung

Copy

Lucknow, Awadh, India (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4277882-7, GND: 4111406-1)

Autograph

1784-1787

  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signatures on f. 4b (dated 1197/1782-83), f. 5b (dated 1198/1783-84), f. 9b (dated1195/1780-81), 10b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 12b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 13b (dated 1199/1784-85), f. 14b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 16b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 18b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 24b (dated 1195/1780-81), f. 25b (dated 1199/1784-85), f. 26b (dated 1195/1780-81):
    محمد علی
    Muḥammad ʿAlī
    and one extensive signature on f. 7b:
    حرّره العبد محمد علی۱۱۹۶غفرالله ذنوبه
    ḥarrarahū al-ʿAbd Muḥammad ʿAlī 1196/1781-82 /ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu
    'The servant Muḥammad ʿAlī wrote it in 1196/1781-82 / May God forgive his sins'.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 6b:
    الفقیر المذنب عماد الحسنی
    عفی عنی۱۰۰۶
    al-faqīr al-mudhnib ʿImād al-Ḥasanī / ʿufiya ʿannī 1006
    'The poor sinner ʿImād al-Ḥasanī / may I be forgiven [by God]! 1006/1597-98'.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • gelöschte Signatur auf f. 8b
  • erased signature on f. 8b
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 15b:
    فقیر حافظ نورالله تحریر نمود
    faqīr Ḥafiẓ Nūrallāh / taḥrīr namūd
    'The poor Ḥafiẓ Nūr Allāh wrote [this]'.
    signature on f. 21b:
    فقیر حافظ نورالله
    faqīr Ḥafiẓ Nūr Allāh
    'der arme Ḥafiẓ Nūr Allāh'
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 30b:
    ḥasb al-farmūda-i ʿālī / dar shahr-i Jumādá al-ūlā / banda-i aḥqar Javāhir Raqam / tarkīb-i īn rubāʿī / bi-rasm-i sarmashq namūd 1065
    'According to the command of the Most High / in the month Jumādá I / the despicable servant Javāhir Raqam / [has] made the composition of this quatrain / as a calligraphic model. 1065/1654-55.'
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 33b:
    کتبه العبد المذنب علی رضا الکاتب
    غفر ذنبه
    katabahū al-ʿabd al-mudhnib ʿAlī Riz̤ā al-kātib / ghafara dhanbahu
    'The sinful servant ʿAlī Riz̤ā the scribe wrote it / May [God] forgive his sin'.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signatures on f. 34b and 38b:
    کتبه مرید خان طباطبا
    katabahū Murīd Khān Ṭabāṭabā
    'Murīd Khān Ṭabāṭabā wrote it'.
    signature on f. 36b:
    خط نواب مرید خان مرحوم
    khaṭṭ-i Navvāb Mūrīd Khān marḥūm
    'Writing of the deceased Navvāb Mūrīd Khān '.
Colophon
  • dedicatory rosette (shamsa) on f. 40b blank

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
  • between 1784 and 1787
  • Lucknow, Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), India
  • produced for

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I. 4597
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24347
Editor
  • weis
Status of edit
  • First input complete
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