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Collection Area Visual Arts Language English Level [32] Fonds

1. Add Or 5728-5775

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5728-5775
Title:
Portraits and costumes of the Rajah and Dewan of Travanore and the various castes of the native Indians by Stephen Crening, 1842
Scope & Content:
48 drawings bound into a volume depicting castes of the Malabar Coast. In most cases a man and woman are shown together holding the implements of their trade. At the end of the album, there is a 'A Supplemental Explanatory Table to the foregoing plates arranged in their numerical order'. First tw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1842
Extent:
1 album with 48 drawings

2. Add Or 5788

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5788
Title:
King Satyavrata reverences the fish avatar of Vishnu, from the 'Small' Bhagavata Purana Series. Artist(s): Attributed to Manaku (fl. c. 1700-1760)
Scope & Content:
Brush drawing on paper. Inscribed above in Pahari in Takri script: machha talaye vich na oyi. tam bade sarovare vich sati. 227 ('The fish was unable to fit within pond, so [it was] left into the sea') (read by Vijay Sharma) and with the number 227. The story of King Satyavrata occurs in the la...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1740-50
Extent:
1 item

3. Add Or 5789

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5789
Title:
Nanapah, butler to Mr C.N. Teed; Arist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Nanapah, butler to Mr. C.N. Teed Madras, circa 1830 Illustration depicts Nanapah, standing in profile holding an open book and a set of keys. He is dressed in traditional white kurta and dhoti with a white turban. The setting is a colonial residence with a gilt framed painting in t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

4. DEL Photo 1411

Reference (shelfmark):
DEL Photo 1411
Title:
Willoughby Wallace Hooper Collection: Album containing family portraits from 1869 and 1879.
Scope & Content:
Half-brown morocco album containing 114 albumen prints, each approx. 4¼ x 6 inches (10.8 x 15.2 cm), mounted two-per-page on each side of thick card leaves, titled and dated neatly in ink on the mounts, several pages loose, front free endpaper inscribed in ink Streatley etc.. 1869.This album cont...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1879
Extent:
1 bound album containing 114 albumen prints.

5. DEL Photo 1424

Reference (shelfmark):
DEL Photo 1424
Title:
Joseph Gaye Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:

6. Foster 1104

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1104
Title:
Portrait of Charles Weston (1731-1809); Artist(s) Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Charles Weston (1731-809) Charles Weston was born in Calcutta, India, son of William Weston who was a chief clerk in the mayor's office in Calcutta. [Needs to be clarified - Eurasian background] check: IOR/F/4/384 Weston's epitaph read 'he was a striking example that character and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1808
Extent:
1 item

7. HS85/10

Reference (shelfmark):
HS85/10
Title:
A collection of Canadian photographs.
Scope & Content:
156 photographs received by the British Museum Library 1895-1923 as a result of the Canadian Copyright Act
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1895-1923
Extent:

2805 photographs

8. Kodak

Reference (shelfmark):
Kodak
Title:
Kodak Historical Archive
Scope & Content:
The Kodak Historical Archive mainly covers the period 1885-1990 although there is later material, particularly relating to Kodak Research, up to c.2007. The majority of the archive relates to Kodak Limited and its predecessor companies, but there are files and documents particularly from Eastman ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885-1980
Extent:
3095 files, some comprising multiple volumes.

9. l.r.233.b.57

Reference (shelfmark):
l.r.233.b.57
Title:
Canadian Official War Photographs
Scope & Content:
Canadian War Memorials Fund (CANADA) 1772 Canadian Official World War 1 Photographs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
4 volumes: 1772 photographs

10. Neg 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 35
Title:
John Murray Collection: Calotype views of India. Photographer: John Murray.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 107 calotype negatives of architectural and topographical views in Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Sikandra, Delhi, Naini Tal, Simla and Benares; originally stored in a green portfolio labelled: 'J. Murray, Calotype Neg'. Modern contact prints from these negatives are available for referenc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c, 1855-1864
Extent:
107 items