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Sita Ram: The simple grave of Asaf al-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Sita Ram  (fl. 1810–1822)  wikidata:Q118320402
 
Alternative names
Seeta Ram
Description painter
Location of birth Bengal
Work period 1810 Edit this at Wikidata–1822 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q118320402
Title
The simple grave of Asaf al-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara
Object type drawing
object_type QS:P31,Q93184
Description

The simple grave of Asaf al-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara

Watercolour of Asaf ud-Daula's grave inside the Great Imambara in Lucknow from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Cawnpore to Mohumdy Vol. IV' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the Commander-in-Chief (r.1813-23), was accompanied by artist Sita Ram (flourished c.1810-22) to illustrate his journey from Calcutta to Delhi between 1814-15.

Nawab Asaf ud-Daula of Awadh (r.1775-1797), requested architect Kifayat-ullah in 1784 to construct the Great Imambara, for the purpose of celebrating the Muslim festival of Muharram in commemoration of the imams Ali, Hasan, and Hussein. Subsequently, the imambara was used as a mausoleum for Asaf ud-Daula upon his death in 1797. Illustrated is the simple grave of Asaf ud-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara, with parties of imams reading the Koran, another in a wooden and gilt 'minbar', and a 'Ta'zia' beyond. The hall is brilliantly lit with coloured girandoles attached to the parapet beneath the ceiling, and by three rows of chandeliers suspended from the latter. Inscribed below: 'Enterior of the Hall in the Imaumbarah Decorated as during the Moharrum.'
Depicted place Lucknow
Date circa 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolor
Dimensions height: 32 cm (12.5 in); width: 47 cm (18.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,47U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
Add.Or.4758
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004758u00000000.html
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The grave of Asaf ud-Daula under a canopy inside the Bara Imambara; a watercolour by Seeta Ram, c.1814–15

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