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Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin

(from 2nd Feb until 22nd Apr 2012)

Explore the remarkable collection of Indian paintings and drawings of the artist Howard Hodgkin.

Detail of Maharaja Dhiraj Singh riding, Raghugarh, India, c.1700 (Museum No: LI118.34)
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Deccani

By the 17th century, highly refined styles of painting had developed further south, in the central Deccan plateau region of India, at the independent Muslim courts of the Sultans of Bijapur and Golconda. Mughal political and cultural dominance was growing, and in 1686-1687 both courts finally fell to the emperor Aurangzeb’s armies. Yet even as the Deccani artists began to assimilate Mughal conventions of portraiture, they reinterpreted them with their own innate sense of poetry and fantasy, and with a rich and subtle palette, often with extensive use of gold.

Among the Deccani masterpieces in the Hodgkin collection are the two great Bijapur portraits, Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah and Ikhlas Khan riding an elephant and Ali Adil Shah shooting a tiger (LI118.54), as well as the Illumination in the form of a vase (LI118.66), a remarkable work of decorative imagination.

Three bamboo shoots, from a De Materia Medica manuscript (LI118.67) Three bamboo shoots, from a De Materia Medica manuscript (LI118.67)   Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah and Ikhlas Khan riding an Elephant (LI118.54) Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah and Ikhlas Khan riding an Elephant (LI118.54)   Sultan Ali Adil Shah II hunting a tiger (LI118.98) Sultan Ali Adil Shah II hunting a tiger (LI118.98)
Sultan Ali Adil Shah II in camp (LI118.44) Sultan Ali Adil Shah II in camp (LI118.44)   Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah (LI118.15) Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah (LI118.15)
Marbled elephant at a trot (LI118.49) Marbled elephant at a trot (LI118.49)   Enraged elephant attacking a horse (LI118.91) Enraged elephant attacking a horse (LI118.91)
Découpage with Persian calligraphy (LI118.99) Découpage with Persian calligraphy (LI118.99)   Illumination in the form of a vase (LI118.66) Illumination in the form of a vase (LI118.66)   Book cover with tree, birds, and insects (LI118.63) Book cover with tree, birds, and insects (LI118.63)   Book cover with tree, birds, and insects (LI118.64) Book cover with tree, birds, and insects (LI118.64)
A hero wrestles a div, or demon (EA2013.30) A hero wrestles a div, or demon (EA2013.30)   Sidi Masud Khan (LI118.103) Sidi Masud Khan (LI118.103)   Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (LI118.42) Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (LI118.42)
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