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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.202.225
People
After John Zoffany, German (Frankfrut am Main, Germany 1733 - 1810)
Title
Colonel Mordaunt's Cockfight (after Zoffany)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1800
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217690

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
44.7 x 66.2 cm (17 5/8 x 26 1/16 in.)
frame: 64.1 x 84.5 cm (25 1/4 x 33 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983.

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
2009.202.225
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch, Room for Wonder : Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1978), Page 94-95/Figure 39
  • Pratapaditya Pal and Vidya Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India 1757-1930, Cornell University Press (New York, NY, 1986), pp 73, fig. 65
  • Stephen Markel and Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Prestel (Munich ; London; New York : Prestel, 2010), pp. 65-66, fig. 105

Exhibition History

  • India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/12/2010 - 02/27/2011
  • 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/06/2022

Verification Level

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