An album, bound in painted leather covers, containing paintings and calligraphies
date: label: Date
content: Assembled in 18th century
label: Period
content: Mughal dynasty
notes: label: Court
content: Mughal Court
label: School/Tradition
content: Mughal school
label: Provenance
content: ?
label: Provenance
content: Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
label: Provenance
content: , method of acquisition unknown [1]
label: Provenance
content: ? - 1907
label: Provenance
content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), method of acquisition unknown [2]
label: Provenance
content: 1907 - 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] In the Freer Art Inventory, created sometime before Charles Lang Freer’s death in 1919, cataloguers include notations indicating Warren Hastings previously owned the work. See Art Inventories, Paintings: Indian and Persian, H. B. Hanna collection, undated, from FSA A.01, Box 65, Folder No. 10, from Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: Warren Hastings was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England and served as the British governor-general of India, 1774-1785. Hastings first gained employment with the East India Company in 1750 and traveled to India the same year. He worked for the East India Company in India until 1765. At that time, Hastings returned to England, although in 1769, he traveled back to India as second in Council in Madras and later became governor and then governor-general of Bengal in 1774. Hastings retired from that post in 1785 and returned to England.
label: Provenance
content: [2] Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna was an officer in the British military and a collector of Indian paintings. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, Hanna’s family later moved to London, where he was baptized in 1851. Beginning in 1857, Hanna served as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1889. After his retirement, he resided in London and Petersfield with his younger sisters. According to Hanna, he began collecting Indian paintings around the time of the Indian Rebellion (1857-1859). See letter from Henry Bathurst Hanna to Charles Lang Freer, dated April 10, 1908 [sic, 1907], p. 3, Box 17, Folder No. 10, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See the Charles Lang Freer art voucher no. 24, “For a collection of Indo-Persian pictures and manuscripts” from H. B. Hanna of Heathmere, Petersfield, Hants. [Hampshire], England, from October 1907, Box 114, Folder No. 12, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Provenance
content: Research updated February 22, 2024
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Body Image (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: At the Margins (June 4 to November 30, 1997)
label: Exhibition History
content: South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1907.276.1-17
objectType: label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper with lacquered, painted leather covers
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.3 sheet): 46 × 32.2 cm (18 1/8 × 12 11/16 in)