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The emperor's elephant is followed at a distance by elephants bearing the imperial  standards, with the royal ladies behind these in a covered howdah, a palanquin, and other screened structures on bullock carts. The royal women are accompanied by female guards on horseback. \r\nBy now the Mughal emperor ruled only in name. In 1764 the British East India Company had defeated the Mughal army and its allied forces, and forced the emperor to grant the Company the right to collect revenue from the large and prosperous province of Bengal. They also insisted he reside in Allahabad, not the imperial capital. However, in 1772 Shah Alam II returned to Delhi under protection after an absence of twelve years, the scene depicted here. The style of the painting is similar to that of the V&A's Gentil Album (IS.25-1980), done in Faizabad in 1774.","physicalDescription":"A view of Delhi, with several of the buildings identified with numbers, stretches across the horizon; the Qutb Minar is on the left and the Salimgarh Fort on the right. The procession consists of the emperor on an elephant bearing the royal standards, an elephant carrying ladies in a covered howdah, and ladies in closed palanquins, accompanied by woman guards.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour","categories":[{"text":"Indian Company Paintings","id":"THES49045"}],"styles":[{"text":"Company","id":"AAT18959"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2014GY3033","2006BF8869"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"007","id":"THES403682"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Painting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Faizabad","id":"x32016"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Lucknow","id":"x32012"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1775","earliest":"1770-01-01","latest":"1779-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased from Messrs L. Chaundy of Oxford Ltd., Albemarle Street, London.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"46.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"67.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed at the top with numbers identifying various monuments in Delhi."}],"objectHistory":"Bought for £5 in 1922 from Messrs L. Chaundy of Oxford Ltd., Albemarle Street, London.\r\n\r\nPurchased from Messrs L. Chaundy of Oxford Ltd., Albemarle Street, London.. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.\r\n\r\nR.P. 1922-3859","historicalContext":"The sundial turbans of the Native Infantry detachments in the foreground suggest a date of ca. 1790, since they were abolished soon afterwards. [but the style of the painting is that of the c. 1774 Gentil Album: SS 29/07/2019]. Dalrymple and Sharma date it to c. 1776, and attribute it to Lucknow.","briefDescription":"Painting, watercolour, procession of Shah Alam II to Delhi, Faizabad or Lucknow,  ca.1775.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Dalrymple, William and Sharma, Yuthika (eds). Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857. New York : Asia Society ; New Haven [Conn.] :</u> Yale University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780300176667 ; 030017666X. p. 7, fig. 4.\r\nYuthika Sharma 'Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of painting', in William Dalrymple, ed. Forgotten Masters. Indian Painting for the EAst India Company, London 2019, fig. 37 p. 145.\r\nArcher, 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 124 p. ISBN 0944142303"},{"reference":{"text":"Jackson, Anna and Ji Wei (eds.) with Rosemary Crill, Ainsley M. Cameron and Nicholas Barnard, compiled by the Palace Museum, translated by Yuan Hong, Qi Yue and Liu Ran. <u>The Splendour of India' Royal Courts : Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. Beijing: the Forbidden City Publishing House, 2013. Text in English and Chinese. 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