Desakhya Ragini. Hyderabad, c.1750. Bellasis Album; deposited on permanent loan by Capt. K.Oliver-Bellasis, R.N., 10 September 1960. Gouache; narrow gold border. 191 by 144 mm. Five men wearing shorts perform feats of weight-lifting and acrobatics against a yellow background. Their turbans ...
A Muslim saint. Hyderabad, c.1820. Bellasis Album; deposited on permanent loan by Capt. K. Oliver-Bellasis, R.N., 10 September 1960. Gouache; red border almost entirely trimmed away. 237 by 130 mm. A Muslim saint with full white beard and green costume sits on a patterned terrace holding a ...
Asavari Ragini. A girl is seated on a hillock with snakes entwined about her body, wearing a peacock-feather skirt. The landscape has water in the foreground. 230 by 133 mm; page 248 by 150 mm.
Visnu with a consort. Mewar, c.1760. Bellasis Album; deposited on permanent loan by Capt. K. Oliver-Bellasis, R.N., 10 September 1960. Gouache; orange border. 200 by 155 mm; page 218 by 168 mm. Visnu is seated in a garden with a consort and five girls in attendance, one with a ‘tambur.’
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a girl. Deccan, c.1730-50. Bellasis Album; deposited on permanent loan by Capt. K.Oliver-Bellasis, R.N., 10 September 1960. Gouache with gold; narrow gold and pink borders. 193 by 142 mm; page 210 by 160 mm. A girl, facing half left, holds a rose with a purple...