Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences - Artists - Patrons and Collectors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004715783)

Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums (muraqqaʿs) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums - now in Berlin, Baroda, London, Paris, and Manchester - were assembled for or collected by the Mughal nawabs of Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), local elites in Bengal and Bihar, as well as Europeans. The book not only presents hitherto rarely investigated material, but also provides general information and many new discoveries based on first-hand codicological study and historical research. It will significantly expand our knowledge of the production, collecting practices, and audiences of muraqqaʿs in eighteenth-century India.

Author: Friederike Weis
ISBN-10: 9004715789
ISBN-13: 9789004715783
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2024
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover