King_Gurgin_Khan.jpg
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Summary
English: An officer, probably Gurgin Khan, the Armenian general of Nawab Mir Qasim, seated smoking on a terrace, with two servants. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Dip Chand
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Title |
English:
An officer, probably Gurgin Khan, the Armenian general of
Nawab Mir Qasim
, seated smoking on a terrace, with two servants.
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Description |
English:
Gurgin Khan is shown seated on a terace and smoking from huqqa. In one hand he holds a small wine cup. One of the two serving attendants stands facing him and holds a tray full of small wine cups. Various courtly accessories have been placed tidely in a row in front of Gurghin Khan and also his battle axe has been placxed on the floor next to him.
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Date |
circa from 1760 until 1763
date QS:P571,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
gouache
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paper
medium QS:P186,Q204330;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q213322
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Current location |
London
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Accession number |
D.1180-1903
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Object history |
English:
he subject of this picture, formerly in the Fullarton collection, is most likely the Armenian cloth-merchant Gregory (hence Gurghin Khan) who trained Nawab Mir Qasim's troops for their engagements with the British. Raymond, the translator of Ghulam Husayn's history, gives the following acount of him: 'Gurghin-qhan was a man born at Ispahan, the capital of Persia, and had a very remarkable physiognomy. He was above the ordinary size, strong built, with a very fair complexion, large black eyes, full of fire, an aquiline nose, forming a ridge in the middle of its length, and eyebrows very arched, that joined together, so as to form a point going downwards towards the nose . . .
Nothing was wanting to that man to render him capable of shining, even in Europe, but education; he owed everything to his own genius, and nothing to art or cultivation.' (Husayn [1789] II, p.503fn). |
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Place of origin
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Murshidabad, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition history |
English:
Arts of Bengal (Whitechapel Art Gallery 30/12/1979-30/09/2011)
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Notes |
English:
The painting is in the style of the Mughal provincial court painting, in particular Murshidabad school.
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Source/Photographer | Gurgin Khan seated smoking on a terrace |
Licensing
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