Cloth Merchant's Shop

Basarat (son of Ditta)

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Caption

Basarat (son of Ditta). Cloth Merchant's Shop, ca. 1850. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. (27.0 x 37.1 cm) image: 7 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (18.1 x 29.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster, 1991.246. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Title

Cloth Merchant's Shop

Date

ca. 1850

Geography

Place made: India

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. (27.0 x 37.1 cm) image: 7 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (18.1 x 29.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed at bottom in nasta'liq script: "ba qalam basarat walad dutta musawwir"

Inscriptions

In lower margin, in red pigment, in Urdu, in nastaliq sxript: From the pen of Basarat, son of Dutta. (Trans. R. Skelton)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster

Accession Number

1991.246

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