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View of Pudu Mandapa Opposite the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai

CultureIndian
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  • View of Pudu Mandapa Opposite the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai
Datec. 1854
MediumPencil and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/16 × 16 7/16 in. (25.5 × 41.7 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 × 20 11/16 in. (37.4 × 52.5 cm)
Mat (support): 18 1/2 × 25 3/8 in. (47 × 64.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Elizabeth S. and Marjorie G. Horning Asian Art Endowment
Object number2022.220
Not on view

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ProvenanceConway Mordaunt Shipley (1824-88), in India 1853-54; [Christie’s, London, 25 April 2012, lot 224]; [Martin Gregory, Sale 'From China to the West: Historical pictures by Chinese and Western artists 1770-1870,' London, 2012-13, no. 104]; [Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., New York, Asia Week New York, 2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryMartyn Gregory, From China to the West: Historical pictures by Chinese and Western artists 1770-1870, London, 2012-13.
Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. Asia Week, New York, March 2022.
Published References Martyn Gregory, From China to the West: Historical pictures by Chinese and Western artists 1770-1870, Catalogue 90, 2012-13, p. 103, catalogue 104: Company school (Indian artist), c. 1840, The great choultry at Madura (Madurai). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: numbered in graphite, above matrix, upper left corner: 27
Verso: numbered and inscribed in black ink, left center: No 2. [cursive] / An other view of the same [illegible] [cursive] / at Madura [cursive] / Also [illegible] a native [cursive]
Verso: numbered and inscribed in black ink, right center: The great [illegible] at Madura [cursive] / see next-page [cursive] / No 1. [cursive] / from the interior of the central nave [cursive] / Drawn by a native of Madras / April /54. [cursive]
Verso: inscribed in black ink, right bottom edge: Granite Column from the great temple at Madura. (drawn by a native) [cursive]
Recto: Label in black printed ink and black pen, on mount, bottom right corner: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch LTD, London [circular border] / 4260 [in center]

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