'Alivardi Khan, who became Nawab of Bengal in 1740, in his palace at Murshidabad
Source:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4483532&SE=CMWCAT04+867888+%2D1703759171+&QR=M+1+0+Aqc0000900+841546++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&SN=7038&RQ=True&AN=174
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"'ALIVARDI KHAN AND A COURTIER, MURSHIDABAD, CIRCA 1745 AD. Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the ruler seated on a terrace holding a gold ring with a courtier, an attendant standing behind him, mounted on an album leaf. Miniature 13¾ x 9¾in. (35 x 25cm.)
Lot Notes: 'Alivardi Khan arrived in Bengal in 1720 and through outstanding ability was appointed to the post of Nawab's deputy in Bihar. Through a powerful alliance with his brother he eventually acceded to the position of Nawab in 1740."
*A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims [in Murshidabad]; a gouache painting, c.1760* (BL)
*A river scene with a nobleman in a morpunkhi, with a shrine and travellers; a gouache painting, c.1760* (BL); [*river scene 1760*]
*A View of the Cuttera [Katra Mosque] built by Jaffier Cawn [Murshid Quli Khan] at Muxadavad; by William Hodges, 1781* (BL); [*Hodges 1781*]
*Firework
display on a bright moonlit night outside the Agna Mahal, part of the
Nawab's
palace beside the river at Murshidabad; a painting c.1790-1800*
(BL);
compare *"Fireworks at Moorshedabad--from a
Native Drawing"*, Illustrated London News, 1858
*Nawab
Mubarak al-Daula of Murshidabad (1770-93) enthroned in durbar, with the
British Resident, Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, and the Nawab's son, Babur
'Ali;
a watercolor, c.1790-1800* (BL);
compare the engraved copy: *"Nawab's durbar
and reception of the English Resident at Morshedabad"*, from the
Illustrated London News, 1857
Source: ebay, May 2009
*'View of a Mosque at Moorshedabad [Murshidabad] with representation of a bazaar or Indian market'; by James Moffat, 1809* (BL); [*Moffat 1809*]
*The city of Murshidabad (Bengal) with the banqueting hall of the Nawab's old palace seen from the river; by Robert Smith, c.1814-15* (BL); [*Smith,c.1814*]
"Grand state procession of the Nawab of Moorshedabad," from the Illustrated London News, 1857; click on any quarter of the engraving for a very large scan
Source: ebay, Apr. 2008
"The Palace of the Nawab of Moorshedabad," from the Illustrated London News, 1858; and very large uncolored scans of the *left half* and the *right half* of the engraving
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
The Nawab's riverside banqueting hall, as it looks today
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemeru/310915969/
(downloaded Dec. 2006)
*A mosque in Murshidabad; a modern visitor's photograph*
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/13234/cat/501
(downloaded Jan. 2007)
*The Char Bangla temple at Murshidabad; a modern visitor's photograph*
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/13110/cat/501
(downloaded Dec. 2006)
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