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831. Add Or 4311

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Add Or 4311
Title:
The Great Gun of Agra lying beside the Fort wall. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The Great Gun of Agra, lying unmounted on the bank of the Jumna below the Shah Burj of the Agra Fort. A ‘toran’, small temple and ruins of Mughal buildings are in the foreground along with tiny people (some inside the gun) and an elephant. In the distance across the river is the Taj Mahal and it...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

832. Add Or 4312-4313

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Add Or 4312-4313
Title:
Add.Or.4312-4313 Two architectural drawings from Chitor in Rajasthan. By a western Indian artist, c.1850. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Fo ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4312-4313 Two architectural drawings from Chitor in Rajasthan. By a western Indian artist, c.1850. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Formerly WD3084-5.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1849-1851
Extent:
1 items

833. Add Or 4313

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4313
Title:
One side of a pillar, from the temple of Sri Kalika Mata at Chitor
Scope & Content:
One side of a pillar, from the temple of Sri Kalika Mata at Chitor
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

834. Add Or 4314

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4314
Title:
The Asar Mahal, viewed from across the great tank to its east
Scope & Content:
The Asar Mahal in Bijapur, viewed from across the great tank to its east. By a western Indian artist, early 19th century. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Mihrza Shureef’; and on the back in pencil in a different hand: ‘Where Mahomed’s remains were laid.’. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 215 by 314 mm....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1830
Extent:
1 Item

835. Add Or 4315-4316

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4315-4316
Title:
Add.Or.4315-4316 Two series of hand-coloured woodcuts of 12 rulers of the Punjab and neighbouring areas, and of Sikh heroes. Lahore, c.1860-70. ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4315-4316 Two series of hand-coloured woodcuts of 12 rulers of the Punjab and neighbouring areas, and of Sikh heroes. Lahore, c.1860-70.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1870
Extent:
2 items

836. Add Or 4317

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4317
Title:
Shaikh Acche holding an inscribed paper and an envelope. Artist(s): Anant (fl. 1584-1610)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Shaikh Acche, who stands facing left, wearing an orange-brown jama against a plain green ground, holding up in his right hand an inscribed paper, and in his left an envelope. A knife-case is suspended from his girdle. By the Mughal artist Anant, c.1600-05. Inscribed on the paper in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600-1605
Extent:
1 Item

837. Add Or 4318

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4318
Title:
Mangala, the planet Mars, holding mace and water-pot
Scope & Content:
Mangala, the planet Mars, holding mace and water-pot. He wears a lotus-topped crown, a sprigged dhoti, and a muslin ‘dupatta’ with flowered ends, and rides facing left on a snarling orange and white tiger. The ground is a dark red, with a narrow band of cloud-streaked sky at the top and anothe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1720
Extent:
1 Item

838. Add Or 4319-4356

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4319-4356
Title:
Add.Or.4319-4356 Album of 38 paintings of the ceremonies undertaken during the life of a brahmin. By a Tanjore artist at Trichinopoly, 1780-86. Water- ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4319-4356 Album of 38 paintings of the ceremonies undertaken during the life of a brahmin. By a Tanjore artist at Trichinopoly, 1780-86. Water-colours, within black ruled frames: 245 by 427.5 mm; size of page: 29 by 46 cm. In a contemporary red morocco binding with a gold-tooled borde...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1786
Extent:
38 items

839. Add Or 4357-4360

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4357-4360
Title:
Add.Or.4357-4360 Four drawings of household servants. By the Calcutta artist Zain al-‘Abidin, c.1835. Purchased 1986. Note: Zain al-‘Abidin is an arti ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4357-4360 Four drawings of household servants. By the Calcutta artist Zain al-‘Abidin, c.1835. Purchased 1986. Note: Zain al-‘Abidin is an artist previously unrecorded by name. In all four of these drawings, the ground is coloured in and the sky left blank. The bottom of the picture...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1834-1836
Extent:
4 items

840. Add Or 4361

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4361
Title:
Folk-story in painted scroll form
Scope & Content:
A folk story in painted scroll form. By a Keralan artist, 19th century. Coarse cloth covered on recto with a yellow ground, with blue and ochre pigments, arranged in 9 registers; some Malayalam inscriptions. 138 by 54 cm. Bequeathed by Dr. A.A. Baké, along with Eur.Mss. ....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

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