Cloth Merchant's Shop
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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)
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Collection
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Collection
Artist
Title
Cloth Merchant's Shop
Date
ca. 1850
Geography
Place made: India
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Classification
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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