New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Nadir Shah and Courtiers

Artist Unknown

CultureIndian

Dateca. 1800

MediumPencil | Watercolors

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 x 8 in. (20.6 x 20.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (36.2 x 48.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number58.27.16

Not on view

DescriptionPencil and opaque watercolor of "Enthroned Rahah and Court"; unfinished, showing techniques of painter. Soiled, torn and mended lower left; crease upper right and left and lower right.

Exhibition HistoryExhibited Norfolk Museum, Gallery "H", February 1958. Also exhibited in College of Wooster Museum, Wooster, Ohio, April 5-27, 1970. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.