Prints and Engravings relating to the rulers including Timurid and Mughal rulers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Del Bontà, Robert John
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content: Robert J. Del Bonta Collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2014.06, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in an order provided by the donor. E or engraving numbers reflect Del Bonta's numbering system.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Mostly European prints of the 18th and 19th century. They are portraits of Indian rulers and their families including prince, princes, and kings from not only the Mughal empire, but also other South Asian kingdoms. The main groups came from publications by Francois Valentijn's Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens of 1724-26, Henri Chatelain's Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L'Histoire, Vol V, 1732, and August Racinet's Le costume historique. Cinq cents planches; trois cents en couleurs, or et argent, deux cents en camaïeu. Avec des notices explicatives et une étude historique, Vol. III, 1888.