2.29 Linear feet (photographs, film negatives, slides, notebooks, land surveys, notes, prints, maps, publications, articles, clippings, drawings.)
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Dholpur (India : District)
Mehtab Bagh
India
Date:
undated
1978-1990
Scope and Contents:
This collection includes research documentation, photographs, slides, and diaries related to Ms. Moynihan's Moghul garden surveys. This information ranges from the Lotus Garden to Rajasthan Gardens to various garden reference materials. There are also various notebooks and annotated maps.
Elizabeth Moynihan Collection, Series 1: Gardens
Arrangement:
The series is organized into three sub-series: Series 1.1: Lotus Garden; Series 1.2: Jai Mahal Garden; Series 1.3: Mehtab Bagh Garden.
Biographical / Historical:
Elizabeth Moynihan is an architectural historian and author, specializing in the study of Mughal gardens in India. She served on the Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission on Education and Culture for many years. While living in India, Ms. Moynihan authored a survey of surviving Moghul gardens, which was published in 1979 as "Paradise as a Garden in Persia and Moghul India." She also did research on Babur, the founder of the Moghul dynasty. In the process, she located and documented four previously unknown 16th century gardens built by Babur.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2013.06 01
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
The Elizabeth Moynihan Collection, FSA A2013.06. National Museum of Asian Art. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Elizabeth Moynihan, 2013.
