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- Title:
- Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
- Former Title(s):
- Shuja-ud-Daulah, Nawab of Awadh, holding a bow
- Date:
- 1772
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm), Frame: 54 3/4 × 45 3/4 × 3 inches (139.1 × 116.2 × 7.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, on a label on the back of the canvas: “Portrait of Sygah Dowlah nabob vizier and Prince of Oude / an ally of Warren Hastings and who for / half a million sterling was to be furnished with / English troops to subjugate the Rohihas and add them to his own dominions / After the death of Sujah Dowlah his son Asapul-Dowlah, a licentious and indolent man, having fallen in arrears of his father’s engagement to the Government, the mother and wife of Sugah Dowlah, known as the principles of Oude, who were supposed to have treasures to the value of three millions sterling, were shut up in their beautiful palace Fyzabad and endured great sufferings until the money was paid. / From the Collection of the late H. C. Plowden. Esq./ of Newtown Park/ Lymington, Hampshire.”; Label on verso, upper left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | [handwritten] Mellon | 81 | [typed] <99991>”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.48
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.48FR
- Subject Terms:
- bow | brocade | column (architectural element) | costume | fur | gold | hat | man | Mughal | Oudh | people | portrait
- Associated Places:
- India
- Associated People:
- Shuja ud-Daula (d. 1775), nawab of Oudh
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:283
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