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Title:
Eastern encounters : four centuries of paintings and manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent / Emily Hannam.
Author:
Hannam, Emily, author.

Queen's Gallery (London, England), host institution.

Royal Collection Trust, issuing body.
Publication Information:
London : Royal Collection Trust, 2018.

©2018
Call Number:
N7262 .H35 2018
Abstract:
This publication showcases the Royal Library's world-class collection of paintings and manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent. These elegant masterpieces comprise a variety of subject matter, from dazzling Mughal durbars to sensuous poetic scenes. Combined with engaging new scholarship tracing the 400-year history of gift-giving between Britain and India's royal courts, this will be the first time many of these works have been published.
ISBN:
9781909741454
Physical Description:
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 31 cm
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom in June 2018.
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Early encounters : the Stuarts and the great mughals -- Georges, Nawas and nabobs : a 'very splendid' collection is formed -- Queen Victoria and the raj : gifts for the queen empress -- Mementos and modern masterpieces : the south Asian collections of King George V and Queen Mary -- Catalogue.
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