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Collection Area Visual Arts Language Not applicable Subject sciences

1. Add Or 202

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 202
Title:
Brahmin astrologer and wife
Scope & Content:
Brahmin astrologer and wife. Inscribed: ‘Sanntery Cara or bramina fortune teller.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 688

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 688
Title:
Astrologer (a Brahmin who interprets the almanac for villagers) and wife: the man holds a palm-leaf manuscript.
Scope & Content:
Astrologer (a Brahmin who interprets the almanac for villagers) and wife; the man holds a palm-leaf manuscript. Inscribed: ‘A Panchangee or Kalender & his Wife.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 998

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 998
Title:
Astrologer.
Scope & Content:
Astrologer. Inscribed: ‘A Pundit who makes almanacs.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 5475, f.27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5475, f.27v
Title:
Raja Jai Singh's Observatory, Delhi. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
Raja Jai Singh’s Observatory, Delhi. Inscribed beneath: ‘naqsha-i jantar mantar birun-i darwaza ajmeri.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

5. Johnson 28,16

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 28,16
Title:
Three astrological paintings cut from a manuscript and mounted together
Scope & Content:
Three miniature paintings, cut from an astrological manuscript and mounted together, one above and two below, the empty spaces filled with illumination. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 1. A winged bearded man, holding a paper inscribed with the ‘bismillah,’ seated on a four-leg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1575
Extent:
1 Item

6. P2635

Reference (shelfmark):
P2635
Title:
Nathaniel Wallich, MD. FRS. Professor of Botany, Medical College, Calcutta. Published by the Medical Journal Press, Calcutta, c1840's. Portrait by Colesworthy Grant from Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta Calcutta, 1838-1850. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
Nathaniel Wallich, MD. FRS. Professor of Botany, Medical College, Calcutta. Published by the Medical Journal Press, Calcutta, c1840's. Portrait by Colesworthy Grant from Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta Calcutta, 1838-1850.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD1740

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1740
Title:
The Joshi, or village astrologer, squatting on the ground with a horoscope in his hand. March 1872. Artist(s): Kipling, John Lockwood (1837-1911)
Scope & Content:
The ‘Joshi,’ or village astrologer, squatting on the ground with a horoscope in his hand. March 1872. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘J.L.K. Khangaum March 1872;’ on back in pencil: ‘No 24. The Josi (village priest and astrologer).’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 Item

8. WD2467

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2467
Title:
The Jantar Mantar, Jai Singh’s Observatory, Delhi. Artist(s): Byers, John Lawson (1785-1815)
Scope & Content:
The Jantar Mantar, Jai Singh’s Observatory, Delhi. c.1815. Foster Catalogue, no.230.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1815
Extent:
1 Item