{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O16840"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16840/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EX3600/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EX3600/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2011EX3600","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O16840/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O16840","accessionNumber":"IM.19-1923","objectType":"Architectural drawing (visual work)","titles":[{"title":"Sixty drawings of Mughal monuments and architectural details.","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"‘Company paintings' were produced by Indian artists for Europeans living and working in the Indian subcontinent, especially British employees of the East India Company. They represent a fusion of traditional Indian artistic styles with conventions and technical features borrowed from western art. Some Company paintings were specially commissioned, while others were virtually mass-produced and could be purchased in bazaars. \r\n\r\nThe Taj Mahal, depicted here from the garden side, was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to commemorate his deceased wife, Arjumand Banu Begum, better known as Mumtaz Mahal ('Elect of the Palace'), who died in 1631, shortly after giving birth to their fourteenth child. Work was begun in 1632, and the mausoleum was completed in 1653.","physicalDescription":"The Taj Mahal, at Agra, is shown from the garden side.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Architecture","id":"THES48993"},{"text":"Indian Company Paintings","id":"THES49045"}],"styles":[{"text":"Company","id":"AAT18959"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2011EX3600"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES403778"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Delhi","id":"x29851"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1836","earliest":"1831-01-01","latest":"1840-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"11","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"7.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"painted area","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"12","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"painted area","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Taj Mahal, Agra, from the Fountain-Garden, built 1632-48","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"c.1836","earliest":"1836-01-01","latest":"1836-12-31"},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"English","medium":"pencil","method":"","position":"back","script":"Roman","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"English; Roman; back; pencil; ca.1836"}],"objectHistory":"The drawings are recorded as being by 'native' droughtsmen of the Delhi School in the Office of the Honourable East India Company's Superintendent of Public Buildings and Ancient  Monuments at Calcutta, ca.1836.\r\n\r\nThese set of drawings are of Mughal monuments in the Delhi area in a landscape setting. \r\nThey are almost identical to a set collected in Delhi by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, ca.1840, some of which were by Mazar Ali Khan and published in Kaye, 1980.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Architectural; drawing, The Taj Mahal, Agra, Delhi, ca.1836","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Archer, Mildred. <u> Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period</u> \r\nVictoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 145 p. ISBN 0944142303"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Taj Mahal","id":"x34886"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Architecture, Mughal","id":"x31032"},{"text":"Fountains","id":"AAT6179"},{"text":"Garden","id":"AAT8090"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.19-1923"],"accessionNumberNum":"19","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1923,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-02","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":true}}