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Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, Keilghee or Ornament for Horses Forelock, undated
- Title:
- Keilghee or Ornament for Horses Forelock
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (34.6 × 24.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: "To be put on the top of the head of the horse | This ornament and feather was made a | present of by Mahdjee Scindia to the | Peshwa 1793."; inscribed on mount now removed: "Kulghee | or | Ornament for a Horses forehead"
Partial watermark: Fleur-de-lis, cursive W
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22420
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- feather | genre subject | horse (animal) | ornament
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17783
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 24, no. 16, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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