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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.202.47
People
Attributed to Abu’l Hasan, Indian
Title
Portrait of a Mughal Court Lady
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Nur Jahan, Wife of Jahangir
Title: Nur Jahan: Portrait to be Worn as a Jewel
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1620
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Mughal
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213073

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
image with border: 4.5 x 5.3 cm (1 3/4 x 2 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1999 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.202.47
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch, "Mughal and Deccani Miniature Paintings From a Private Collection", Ars Orientalis; The Arts of Islam and the East, Freer Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1963), Vol. 5, 221 - 233, fig. 13, pl. 8
  • Samina Quraeshi, Lahore: The City Within, Concept Media Pte Ltd (Singapore, 1988), page 84
  • Wheeler Thackston, ed., The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1999), page 368

Verification Level

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