Title(s)

Copy of a decorated window of the Sidi Saiyyed Ni Jaali Mosque in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1079-4

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘IV.’
• inscription: ‘FULL SIZE, 7 FT. BY 10 FT. MADE BY MR. DE FOREST'S MEN AND SOLD TO THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.’
• title: ‘COPY OF ONE OF THE BHUDDER WINDOWS AT AHMEDABAD.’

Artist

• anonymous
• maker: Heliotype Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

Ahmedabad
maker: Boston

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1885

Material

• paper

Technique

photoaquatint

Measurements

height 166 mm × width 243 mm

What

• window
• ornament derived from plant forms

Where

• Ahmedabad

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Indian domestic architecture (RP-F-2001-7-1079)