Title: An Indian Dancing Girl with a Hookah
Aternate title: Dancing - girl Faizabad
Timeline: 1772
Artist: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786
Place of origin: British, active in India (from 1769 to 1776)
Source: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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Horse rider from moraqqa of mughal paintings by followers of mir kalan khan, Faizabad, 1780 lot100

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A Woman of the Court at Faizabad, India by Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786, British, active in India (1769–76)
Date:1772
Medium:Oil on canvas
Credit Line:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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The same manuscript contains bios and portraits of shaykhs, poets, and others who were active in and around Lucknow and Faizabad, including this guy, who may be the Urdu poet Imam Bakhsh Nasikh

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OTD Imam Baksh Nasikh died in 1838 in Lucknow.
He was born in 1775 at Faizabad. During his childhood, he came to Lucknow & learned Persian & Arabic. He was also fond of wrestling. He was inspired by Mir Taqi Mir & wanted to became his disciple but Mir refused!
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'An Dancing Girl from with a
From a beautiful 1772 CE painting by the 1st prominent portrait artist to operate in is with Yale Centre for British Art, USA.

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retraces the journey of the woman from Faizabad who became

Nirmal Chander’s visually sumptuous ‘Zikr Us Parivash Ka’ is a cradle-to-grave account of one of India’s most celebrated classical music artists.

Read more: https://t.co/PHZzWvQi3v

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Maqbara of Bahu Begum in a vintage photo. it is said that she had in will gave 3 lakh sicca (rupees?) for construction of her maqbara. over her grave to Darab Ali Khan.

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