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541. Add Or 3362

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Add Or 3362
Title:
Haragauri (Siva in bi-sexual form). Artist(s): Kali Charan Ghosh (1844-1930)
Scope & Content:
Painting of a religious subject. Haragauri (Siva in bisexual form). By a patua, Kalighat, c.1890. Water-colour; 130 by 90 mm. Presented to W.G. Archer by Howard Hodgkin, London, 1961. Purchased 1974. Note: For other examples from the same series acquired in 1961 from Howard Hodgkin by the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

542. Add Or 3363-3366, Add Or 3843-3845

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Add Or 3363-3366, Add Or 3843-3845
Title:
Add.Or.3363-3366; Add.Or.3843-3845 Seven paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) five scenes of current Calcutta life. By Kali Charan G ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3363-3366; Add.Or.3843-3845 Seven paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) five scenes of current Calcutta life. By Kali Charan Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1900. Water-colour; 455 by 280 mm. Obtained by W.G. Archer in Calcutta in 1932 from Mukul Dey, then Principal, Government Sc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1899-1901
Extent:
7 items

543. Add Or 3367-3369

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Add Or 3367-3369
Title:
Add.Or.3367-3369 Three paintings illustrating scenes of current Calcutta life. By Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1900. Water-colour; varying sizes ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3367-3369 Three paintings illustrating scenes of current Calcutta life. By Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1900. Water-colour; varying sizes; 3369 unfinished. Obtained by W.G. Archer in Calcutta in 1932 from Mukul Dey, then Principal, Government School of Art, Calcutta, who had obt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1899-1901
Extent:
3 items

544. Add Or 3370

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3370
Title:
Chaitanya and his disciple Nityananda. Artist(s): Kanai Lal Ghosh (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
A painting illustrating a religious subject. Caitanya and his disciple Nityananda. By Kanai Lal Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1925. Water-colour, unfinished; 455 by 280 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer at Kalighat in 1932 from the artist Kanai Lal Ghosh (born 1907), a relation of Nibaran and Kali Charan Gh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 Item

545. Add Or 3371-3375

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3371-3375
Title:
Add.Or.3371-3375 Five paintings illustrating: (a) four religious or mythological subjects (b) a scene from current Calcutta life. By Kanai Lal Ghosh, ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3371-3375 Five paintings illustrating: (a) four religious or mythological subjects (b) a scene from current Calcutta life. By Kanai Lal Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1925. Line drawings in black with plain backgrounds; 45 5 by ‘2’ 80 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer at Kalighat in 1932 from the arti...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924-1926
Extent:
5 items

546. Add Or 3376

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3376
Title:
A courtesan playing on a tabla. Kansaripura Art Studio. Artist(s): Kansaripura Art Studio (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A Kalighat-type chromolithograph depicting a courtesan playing on a ‘tabla.’ Printed at the Kansaripara Art Studio, 26, Kristo Das Pal’s Lane, Calcutta; 450 by 350 mm. Lettered in Bengali: ‘nalini sundari.’ Purchased by W.G. Archer in Kalighat, 1932. Purchased 1974. Note: Colour lithogr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

547. Add Or 3377

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3377
Title:
Rama and Sita enthroned, Lakshmana, Jambavat and two attendants beside them. Artist(s): Rupchand Kha (fl. c.1850)
Scope & Content:
A painting illustrating a religious subject. Rama and Sita enthroned, Laksmana, Hanuman, Jambavat and two attendants beside them. Variant on, or perhaps a near precursor of Kalighat painting, c.1850. By Rupchand Kha, Kejata village, Bengal. Inscribed in Bengali: ‘sri rupcand kha village keja...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

548. Add Or 3378

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3378
Title:
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the temple; Nabin murders his wife Elokeshi.
Scope & Content:
The Tarakesvar murder. To the left, the Mahant, Madhav Giri, sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple; to the right, Nabin murders his wife Elokesi with a fish-knife. By a karmakar, Calcutta, c.1875-80. Engraved in Bengali characters: (1) ‘sri madhavgiri mohanta’ (Mahant Madhav Giri); ‘(2) teleb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1875-1880
Extent:
1 Item

549. Add Or 3379-3381

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3379-3381
Title:
Add.Or.3379-3381 Scroll painting cut into three sections illustrating the tigers’ god and scenes of Santal life. By Babulal and Surendra Citrakar, vil ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3379-3381 Scroll painting cut into three sections illustrating the tigers’ god and scenes of Santal life. By Babulal and Surendra Citrakar, village Ranga, Rakshi bungalow, Rajmahal subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Watercolour; width 277 mm. Collected by W.G. Arche...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
3 items

550. Add Or 3382-3383

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3382-3383
Title:
Add.Or.3382-3383 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Pa ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3382-3383 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 280 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: Punishments interpreted by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
2 items

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