- Title:
- Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore
- Date:
- ca. 1801
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 50 x 39 1/2 inches (127 x 100.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower center: "[logo] Spink [logo] | Founded 1666 | King Street, St. James's,"; upper right: "Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | < F. 6042> | [handwritten] 202 | [typed] <5556>"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1973.1.22
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1973.1.22FR
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | column (architectural element) | columns (architectural elements) | costume | document | gold (color) | green (color) | hat | interior | minister | papers | portrait | red | sculpture | statuette
- Associated People:
- Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore
- Access:
- Not on view
- Exhibition History:
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The Raj - India and the British 1600 - 1947 (National Portrait Gallery, 1990-10-19 - 1991-03-17)
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
- Publications:
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Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 227-8, 487, 502, pl. IX, fig. 153, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)
C. A. Bayly, The Raj, India and the British, 1600-1947 , National Portrait Gallery, London, 1990, pp. 174-6, cat. no. 194, DS428 R25 1990 (YCBA)
Anne Buddle, The tiger and the thistle, Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India 1760-1800 , National Gallery of Scotland, 1999, pp. 42, 86, no. 130, DS469 +B83 1999 (YCBA)
John McAleer, Picturing India People, Places, and the World of the East India Company, The British Library, London, p. 169, fig. 4.25, N8214.5.I5 M43 2017 (YCBA)
Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 7, V 1199 (YCBA)
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 30, no. 79, V2359 (YCBA)
Stuart Cary Welch, The British view of India, selected English paintings from the Paul Mellon collection , American Federation of Arts, New York, 1978, N8214.5 I5 B75 1978 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:124
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Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824, Irish, Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore, ca. 1801
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