Paper conservation case study Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
'Baz Bahadur and his mistress Rupmati hunting' c 1780 opaque
watercolour, gold leaf, tin leaf, The Gayer-Anderson Gift 1954,
Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail The
paper conservation department at the National Gallery is
currently investigating a collection of Indian paintings and
drawings known as the Gayer-Anderson Gift. Although small, this
group of works is quite broad in its content. It includes
vibrant 19th-century souvenir watercolours from the Kalighat
school of Calcutta , 20th-century woodblock prints in the
Japanese tradition, and 18th-and 19th-century works from the
Northern Indian provinces. The collection also includes a
variety of unfinished works, preparatory drawings, tracings and
stencils which reflect the studio tradition of the great Mughal
period of miniature painting; and our studies have focused on
this last category of works. In essence, a miniature painting is
a coloured drawing, its precise outline