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They were commissioned by Colonel Pownell Phipps, Superintendent and Inspector of Public Buildings, Calcutta, 1816-1822, and were presented to the Museum by his son, Colonel Ramsay W. Phipps. The pictures are clearly copies of earlier standard paintings that the artists had brought with them to Calcutta as models. This one shows the front elevation of the mausoleum completed in 1616 at Sikandra near Agra to house the remains of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556-1605).\r\n\r\n‘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. 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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. 192-4465","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Architectural; Drawings, Delhi, ca.1816-1822","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 133 p. ISBN 0944142303"},{"reference":{"text":"The Indian Heritage. 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