Freer Purchases Hanna Collection
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PrintCharles Lang Freer purchases a collection of 130 Indian paintings and manuscripts from Colonel Henry Bathhurst Hanna (1839-1914), who collected them while serving in the British Army in India. Freer pays £3100 (about $15,000 at the time) for the collection, which includes Mughal art from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as later works. The purchase represents one of Freer's first major acquisitions of Indian art.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 1907
India