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851. Add Or 4393-4395

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Add Or 4393-4395
Title:
Add.Or.4393-4395 Three drawings from Murshidabad, one depicting the court, the other two the Muharram festival. By Murshidabad artists, c.1800. Deposi ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4393-4395 Three drawings from Murshidabad, one depicting the court, the other two the Muharram festival. By Murshidabad artists, c.1800. Deposited on permanent loan by the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, 1988. Note: All three drawings have the same incriptions pasted on the mou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1801
Extent:
3 items

852. Add Or 4396-4470

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Add Or 4396-4470
Title:
Add.Or.4396-4470 An album of 75 portraits depicting principally the courtiers and ministers of the Nizams of Hyderabad ‘Ali Khan (reg.1762-1803) and ...
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Add.Or.4396-4470 An album of 75 portraits depicting principally the courtiers and ministers of the Nizams of Hyderabad ‘Ali Khan (reg.1762-1803) and Sikandar Jah (reg.1803-29).assembled originally in Hyderabad in the early 19th century, refurbished about 1900 and presented in 1915 by Nizam Mir...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1779-1825
Extent:
75 items

853. Add Or 4471

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Add Or 4471
Title:
The Ramlila spectacle at Benares
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The Ramlila spectacle, with Laksmana attacking a gigantic Ravana, monkeys and bears fighting the demons, and Rama and the monkey and bear chiefs directing operations, before a large audience including Bengal Army sepoys. By a Patna/Benares artist, c.1830-40. Body-colour on mica; 210 by 255 mm....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1835-1840
Extent:
1 Item

854. Add Or 4472

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Add Or 4472
Title:
Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Punjab (reg. 1780-1839)
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Punjab (reg.1780-1839), bearing sword and shield, and standing on a terrace with water and trees beyond. By a Delhi artist, c.1816-20. Water-colour; 205 by 160 mm. From the collections of James Baillie and William Fraser, and by family descent. Purchased 1989. N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1816-1829
Extent:
1 Item

855. Add Or 4473

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Add Or 4473
Title:
Six Sufi saints seated on a terrace: Khvaja Mu‘in al-Din; Ghaus al-A‘zam; Khvaja Qutb al-Din; Shaikh Mihr; Shah Sharaf Bu ‘Ali Qalandar; Sultan Musa Shaikh
Scope & Content:
Six Sufi saints seated on a terrace. By a Rajasthani (Kishangarh?) artist, c.1760. Inscribed with the names of the saints in Persian: ‘Khvaja Mu‘in al-Din; Ghaus al-A‘zam; Khvaja Qutb al-Din; Shaykh Mihr; Shah Sharaf Bu ‘Ali Qalandar; Sultan Musa Shaykh;’ and in Hindi: ‘Chvaje Mainuldin; Gosal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

856. Add Or 4474

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Add Or 4474
Title:
William Fraser (1784-1835)
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Portrait of William Fraser (1784-1835), half-length, seated in a chair, holding the snake of a hookah in his left hand and a handkerchief in his right. By a Delhi artist, c.1820-25. Opaque water-colour with gold, within an oval 105 by 87 mm, within a rectangular frame with gold flowering creep...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1825
Extent:
1 Item

857. Add Or 4475

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Add Or 4475
Title:
A portrait of the naked ascetic Pothi Sadhu of Mathura
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A portrait of the naked ascetic Pothi Sadhu of Mathura, who sits on an animal skin with his right foot caught up under his right armpit, and wearing just a green turban with a white cloth wound round it and over his mouth. Around him are positioned his garment, shoes, crutch, bow and bowls. By...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1816-1820
Extent:
1 Item

858. Add Or 4476-4489

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Add Or 4476-4489
Title:
Add.Or.4476-4489 14 drawings of animals including elephants, camels, nilgau, deer, sheep, goats, buffalo and a pangolin. By a Calcutta artist at Meeru ...
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Add.Or.4476-4489 14 drawings of animals including elephants, camels, nilgau, deer, sheep, goats, buffalo and a pangolin. By a Calcutta artist at Meerut, c.1809-12. Inscribed in pencil with details of origin and with measurements. Pen-and-ink, wash and traces of water-colour; all originally f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1809-1812
Extent:
14 items

859. Add Or 4490-4491

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Add Or 4490-4491
Title:
Two drawings of occupations
Scope & Content:
Two drawings on mica of occupations, with attached inscriptions. By a Benares artist, c.1860-80. Water-colour on mica; 145 by 110 m. Presented by Mr. N.P. Hadow, 1986. Found with the papers of Sir Raymond Patrick Hadow (1879-1962), Indian Service of Engineers. See also WD4223 and Mss Eur D ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1880
Extent:
1 Item

860. Add Or 4492

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Add Or 4492
Title:
View of Pondicherry from the sea, after an original of 1761. Artist(s): Paramananda Tamby (fl. c.1800)
Scope & Content:
View of Pondicherry from the sea. The citadel of Fort St. Louis is conspicuous in the centre, with the Capuchin Church and the Jesuit College, while four ships lie off the coast with ‘masula’ boats going to and from the beach. By the artist Paramananda Tamby, probably a Tanjore artist working ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

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