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- Title:
- Ruins on Pir Pahar, near Monghy, Bihar
- Additional Title(s):
- Ruins on Pir Pahar, near Monghyr, Bihar
- Date:
- 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 18 7/8 × 22 3/4 inches (47.9 × 57.8 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 15 1/8 × 20 inches (38.4 × 50.8 cm), Sheet: 14 15/16 × 19 11/16 inches (37.9 × 50 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, upper left: "B10"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower left: "Elep An"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "View near Monghyr"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower right: "42"; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: "6"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left; "Hunting House built by Mur Jaffur Nabol y Dinyal | taken Dec 1790; inscribed in pen with brown ink, verso, lower center: "N. 66 Ruins on Pir Pahar near Monghyr"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "83 | 36"
Watermark: [bend (?); illegible] Fleur-de-lys (Unidentified; hard to see)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4409
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated Places:
- Bihar | India | Munger
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9223
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