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- Title:
Muslim Lady Reclining
- Former Title(s):
An Indian Girl with a Hookah, signed and dated 1789
An Indian lady reclining on a rug and a cushion, presumably the bibi of an Englishman living in Dacca
- Date:
- 1789
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 22 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (57.2 × 69.9 cm), Frame: 27 1/4 × 32 3/8 inches (69.2 × 82.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black, lower right: "Fr. RENALDI PINXIT | [Dacca 7...9]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.519
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.519FR
- Subject Terms:
- anklets | bracelets (jewelry) | collar | doors | earrings | genre subject | girl | hookah | Indian | interior (space) | jewel | necklaces | nose ring | pillow | reclining | ring | rug | scarf | silver | slippers | stool | tray | window | woman
- Associated Places:
- Bangladesh | Dacca | India
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1003
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