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Sita Ram: Aurangzab's red sandstone mosque on the birthplace of Krishna   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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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
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artist QS:P170,Q118320402
Title
Aurangzab's red sandstone mosque on the birthplace of Krishna
Object type drawing
object_type QS:P31,Q93184
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Aurangzeb's red sandstone mosque [built in 1670]

Watercolour of Aurangzeb's Idgah at Mathura from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Tughlikabad to Secundra Vol. VIII' 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.

Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r.1659-1707) ordered the construction of the red sandstone mosque for the celebration of the Muslim festival of Id [Idgah] in 1670. The mosque was built on the site of an earlier temple, Keshava Deva. Mathura, on the banks of the river Yamuna 150 kms south of Delhi, is a sacred city for Hindus. Mathura became the centre for the Vaishnava cult by the 15th century and it is celebrated now above all as the site which Hindu mythology designates as the birthplace of Krishna, the popular incarnation of Vishnu. Inscribed below: 'Nowrung Padsha's Musgid at Muttra.'
Depicted place Mathura
Date 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor
Dimensions height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 60 cm (23.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,40U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,60U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
Add.Or.4844
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/a/019addor0004844u00000000.html
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