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A well-dressed noble youth sits at ease on a rock by a small brook under a tree listening to a kneeling man who is singing from a book. The youth is dressed in a vibrant plain orange <i>jama</i> with golden lappets decorated in a crimson running pattern under his right arm.  He wears a short golden <i>patka</i> with bands of red and green decoration with black interlaced patterning at the ends.  He is bare footed with golden <i>paijama</i> decorated with a pattern of red flowers.  His dark hair is swept up into a red turban with black and gold bands.  He is wearing pearl earrings, a pearl necklace and a large pendant red gem with a pearl.  He holds a small golden book in his left be-ringed hand.\r\n      The singer is dressed in simple clothes with a white tunic, black cummerband over baggy brown trousers.  He has a beard and a drooping moustache.  He wears a loosely-wound red turban.  In his left hand he holds an open red-covered book.\r\nTwo yellow birds with red pointed beaks sit in the feathery-leafed tree which grows out of the rock, the form of which is painted in pink and brown washes with delicate green brushwork to indicate undergrowth.  The tree is shown against a sandy-brown background which rises up and merges into a blue sky with no clear horizon.\r\n      The painting is framed in pale brown paper decorated with a running stylised foliate design in gold between white, black and outer dark blue outlines.  The border design of lilies and poppies is similar to that in IS.48/3B-1956, which has a similar, but not exactly the same brown inner frame.  The margins of the page have strips of buff-coloured paper inscribed with a white line along the inner edge. An additional strip of pale brown paper has been stuck along the left hand edge of the page to act as a gutter for the album binding.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"opaque watercolour","id":"x35013"},{"text":"paint","id":"AAT15029"},{"text":"paper","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Painting (image-making)","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Painted in opaque watercolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project","id":"THES263148"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mughal","id":"AAT18939"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2006BL1686","2006AT3442"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES406584"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Painting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Mughal Empire","id":"THES262021"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1650-1750","earliest":"1650-01-01","latest":"1750-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Gift of Mr. John Goelet","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"13.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"central painting","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"9.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"central painting","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"35.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"page","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"23.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"page","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"numeral '10'","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 in pencil on the top right hand border"}],"objectHistory":"This miniature painting is part of the Small Clive Album of Indian miniatures which is thought to have been given by Shuja ud-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh, to Lord Clive during his last visit to India in 1765-67. It contains 56 leaves on which are Mughal miniature paintings, drawing and flower studies on both sides. The binding is covered with an Indian brocade. The silk may have been cut from lengths brought home by the 2nd Lord Clive who served as Governor of Madras 1799-1803.  The album was sold from Powis Castle at Sotheby's sale, 16-18 January 1956, lot 332A.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Painting, Small Clive Album p. 19, a Qalandar sufi and a Mughal prince, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, 1650-1750","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"people","id":"AAT24979"},{"text":"birds","id":"x35043"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"music","id":"x35606"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IS.48:10/A-1956"],"accessionNumberNum":"48","accessionNumberPrefix":"IS","accessionYear":1956,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-18","recordCreationDate":"2003-10-09","availableToBook":true}}