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841. Add Or 4362

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Add Or 4362
Title:
The Begum Samru, half-length, seated smoking a hookah
Scope & Content:
Portrait of the Begum Samru, half length facing slightly to the right and holding the snake of a hookah. She wears a fur hat, with dangling pearl ‘sarpech’ and a pearl necklace, and is enveloped in a heavy yellow shawl, with red and blue lining. The background is uniformly dark grey. By a Del...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item

842. Add Or 4363

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Add Or 4363
Title:
The Sheep Eater; seven stages in a man's consumption of a sheep, illustrated in consecutive sequence
Scope & Content:
The Sheep Eater; seven stages in a man’s consumption of a sheep, illustrated in consecutive sequence from right to left. Only the ground is shaded while the sky is left blank. By a Calcutta artist, c.1795-1800. Inscribed above in ink: ‘Jura Geer Berah Geer the famous Sheep Eater from Surong ne...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1795-1800
Extent:
1 Item

843. Add Or 4365

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Add Or 4365
Title:
Panorama of the city of Dacca, extending along the river from the Lalbagh Fort on the left to the East India Company's sugar mills on the right
Scope & Content:
Panorama of the city of Dacca, extending along the river for about six miles along the north bank of the Baraganga branch of the Ganges, from the sugar mills on the right to the Lalbagh palace on the left. The panorama is very detailed, and shows Mughal buildings (the greater and lesser Katras, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840-1845
Extent:
1 Item

844. Add Or 4366

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Add Or 4366
Title:
Maharana Sarup Singh of Mewar (reg. 1842-61) and Bagas Chand on horseback, practising wielding their double-ended lances. Artist(s): Tara (fl. 1846)
Scope & Content:
Maharana Sarup Singh of Mewar (reg.1842-61) and Bagas Chand on horseback galloping in a circle, practising wielding their double-ended lances. Attendants wait at the bottom of the picture, one holding the royal umbrella and another the solar standard of Mewar. By the Udaipur royal artist Tara,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 Item

845. Add Or 4367-4370

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Add Or 4367-4370
Title:
Add.Or.4367-4370 Four drawings of details of carvings on the sides of the post-Gupta period Dhamekh Stupa at Sarnath outside Benares, three illustrati ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4367-4370 Four drawings of details of carvings on the sides of the post-Gupta period Dhamekh Stupa at Sarnath outside Benares, three illustrating three of the eight originally ornately decorated pointed-arch niches adorning the sides of the stupa, which would have originally housed image...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1784-1786
Extent:
4 items

846. Add Or 4371-4387

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Add Or 4371-4387
Title:
Add.Or.4371-4387 24 drawings let into an album depicting sect-marks, religious types and castes. By a Tanjore artist, c.1850. Inscribed on paintings a ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4371-4387 24 drawings let into an album depicting sect-marks, religious types and castes. By a Tanjore artist, c.1850. Inscribed on paintings and throughout the album (see below). Water-colour; size of album 26.5 by 21 cm; full-size paintings 24 by 18 cm, small ones 9 by 11.5 cm. The...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1849-1851
Extent:
17 items

847. Add Or 4388

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Add Or 4388
Title:
A design for an elephant howdah
Scope & Content:
A design for an elephant howdah. By a Kotah artist, c.1850. Inscribed in nagari: ‘ani praman hodo huvoh’ (‘front view(?) of an howdah’). Water-colour and body-colour; 117 by 186 mm. Purchased 1987. Note: The design seems fanciful, in the excess of its curls and swags and sleigh-like frontal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

848. Add Or 4389-4390

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Add Or 4389-4390
Title:
Add.Or.4389-4390 Head and shoulder portraits of the Nawab Vizier of Oudh, Shuja‘ al-Daula (b.1731, reg.1753-75), and of his son Asaf al-Daula (reg.177 ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4389-4390 Head and shoulder portraits of the Nawab Vizier of Oudh, Shuja‘ al-Daula (b.1731, reg.1753-75), and of his son Asaf al-Daula (reg.1775-97). Purchased 1987. Note: Both portraits show the Nawab and his son in the poses adopted for Mihr Chand’s ‘Shuja‘ al-Daulah and his ten sons...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1774-1776
Extent:
2 items

849. Add Or 4391

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Add Or 4391
Title:
The shrine of Imam Husayn at Karbala, Iraq. Artist(s): Muhammad Yusuf (fl.c.1845-1875)
Scope & Content:
The shrine of Imam Husayn at Karbala, Iraq. By the Delhi artist Muhammad Yusuf, 1875. Inscribed above in nasta‘liq: ‘naqsh-i rauza imam husayn’; and below: ‘‘amal-i muhammad yusuf dihlavi san 92.’. Water-colour heightened with gold; 396 by 554 mm, including black painted frame. Purchased 198...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 Item

850. Add Or 4392

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4392
Title:
A plan of the Agra Fort, with the wall, gateways and principal palace buildings in elevation. Artist(s): Ghulam Ahmad, Shaikh (fl.1812-1815)
Scope & Content:
A plan of the Agra Fort. Drawn by the Agra draftsman Shaykh Ghulam Ahmad, 1812-15. Inscribed in ink in Persian in nasta‘liq: ‘naqsha-i haza qila‘-i shahr-i Agra malkiyat-i Shaikh Sharaf al-Din Ahmad valad Shaikh Ghulam Ahmad naqsha navis pansan yafta sakin muhalla Pipal Mandi Agra’ (‘Picture o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812-1815
Extent:
1 Item

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