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29-96-726C

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-96-726C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian (uncertain)
Provenience India
Section Asian
Materials Paper
Technique Printed
Inscription Language Hindi-Urdu Language
Description

Handbill for the Mumbai Parsi Original Opera Company giving a synopsis of one of their plays, Shararah-i 'Ishq. Most of the text is in Devanagari script in Hindustani, with the name of the play repeated in Urdu in Nastaʿlīq script. It is lithographed in Jaipur, and the intended audience seems to be the citizens of that city (and Princely State), as a panegyric verse extoling Jaipur is at the beginning of the page.

Length 32.5 cm
Width 24 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 51 - Other Number

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