Object Details
- School/Tradition
- Company school
- Provenance
- Before 1886
- Ownership information unknown
- By 1886-1907
- Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), method of acquisition unknown [1]
- 1907-1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift from Charles Lang Freer [3]
- Notes:
- [1] In the Freer Art Inventory, created sometime before Charles Lang Freer’s death in 1919, cataloguers include notations indicating Col. Hanna owned the work by 1886. See Art Inventories, Paintings: Indian and Persian, H. B. Hanna collection, undated, Box 65, Folder No. 9, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., , copy in object file.
- See “Catalogue of Indo-Persian Pictures and Manuscripts, Principally of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries by Native Artists, Collected by H. B. Hanna” [book], (London: Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells, 1890).
- Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) was an officer in the British military and a collector of Indian paintings. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, Hanna’s family later moved to London, where he was baptized in 1851. Beginning in 1857, Hanna served as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1889. After his retirement, he resided in London and Petersfield with his younger sisters. According to Hanna, he began collecting Indian paintings around the time of the Indian Rebellion (1857-1859). See letter from Henry Bathurst Hanna to Charles Lang Freer, dated April 10, 1908 [sic, 1907], p. 3, Box 17, Folder No. 10, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- [2] See also the Charles Lang Freer art voucher no. 24, “For a collection of Indo-Persian pictures and manuscripts” from H. B. Hanna of Heathmere, Petersfield, Hants. [Hampshire], England, from October 1907, Box 114, Folder No. 12, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., copy in object file.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer’s gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Research updated February 22, 2024
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)
- Colonel Hanna's Pictures (August 21, 1999 to February 6, 2000)
- South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- mid-19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 23.2 x 38.2 cm (9 1/8 x 15 1/16 in)
- Type
- Painting
