File:The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid. Lady Hastings' party in the foreground - British Library Add.or.4817.jpg
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Sita Ram: The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid. Lady Hastings' party in the foreground
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The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid. Lady Hastings' party in the foreground |
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English: The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid. Lady Hastings' party in the foreground; a watercolour by Seeta Ram, 1814-15*
Watercolour of Kalan Masjid from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Delhi to Tughlikabad Vol. VII' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the Commander-in-Chief (r.1813-23), was accompanied by artist Sita Ram (flourished c.1810-22) to illustrate his journey from Calcutta to Delhi between 1814-15. Idealised view of the entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid with its vertiginous flight of steps to the entrance gateway. A group of elephants, soldiers and retainers in the foreground. The Kalan Masjid, located in Delhi, was built in 1387 by the son of Khan-i-Jahan Junan Shah, Prime Minster of Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r.1351-88). The mosque was built in Ferozabad, a section of Delhi, the city built by Feroz Shah Tughlaq but was later included in Shahjahan's new city Shahjahanabad. Inscribed below: 'Another view of the same to the West,' with an illegible pencil inscription along the bottom unused edge of the drawing paper. |
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| Depicted place | Delhi | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1815 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | watercolor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 38.7 cm (15.2 in); width: 53.7 cm (21.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Add.Or.4817 |
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| Credit line | British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections | |||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004817u00000000.html | |||||||||||||||||||
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