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2141. Add Or 2531

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2531
Title:
Cloth merchant seated in his shop selling chintz to a customer.
Scope & Content:
Cloth merchant seated in his shop selling chintz to a customer. Inscribed on back: ‘No.34. A Chintz Merchant.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2142. Add Or 2532

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2532
Title:
Liquor merchant seated in his shop pouring drink into bowls.
Scope & Content:
Liquor vendor in his shop pouring drink into bowls. Four customers (three men and one woman) stand or sit around. Inscribed on back: ‘No.2’. ‘A Arrack Shop.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2143. Add Or 2533

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2533
Title:
Sati scene.
Scope & Content:
Sati scene. A wife clasps the corpse of her husband on the pyre. Two women and three Brahmins stand below. Inscribed on back: ‘No.4. A Man & Wife Burning.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2144. Add Or 2534

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2534
Title:
Saiva temple.
Scope & Content:
Shaiva temple. In the foreground two priests and a statue of the bull Nandi. Inscribed on back: ‘No.3. A Pagoda.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2145. Add Or 2535

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2535
Title:
Temple car being drawn in procession by devotees.
Scope & Content:
Temple car being drawn in procession by devotees. Inscribed on back: ‘No.11 A Swamy Coach.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2146. Add Or 2536

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2536
Title:
Composite picture. Kama God of Love, impersonated by a woman mounted on a horse composed of five women.
Scope & Content:
Composite picture. Kama, the god of love, impersonated by a woman, mounted on a horse composed of five women. Inscribed on back: ‘A Horse made of women.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

2147. Add Or 2538

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2538
Title:
Akbar II (1806-37). Artist(s): Ghulam 'Ali Khan (fl.1817-1852)
Scope & Content:
Akbar II, a halo round his head, wears a fur-trimmed padded coat. He is seated holding a hookah-snake in his left hand, and a writing case lies on the floor beside him. Inscribed on back of original frame in Persian with an English translation: ‘The auspicious Portrait of His Majesty, exalted a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

2148. Add Or 2539

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2539
Title:
Mirza Salim. second son of Akbar II. Artist(s): Ghulam 'Ali Khan (fl.1817-1852)
Scope & Content:
Prince Mirza Muhammad Salim, the Emperor’s second son. The prince is seated holding a hookah snake in his right hand. He wears a fur-trimmed padded pillar and draped curtains behind him.. Inscribed on back of original frame in Persian with an English translation: ‘The Portrait of the Lord of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

2149. Add Or 2541

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2541
Title:
Indra before Krishna
Scope & Content:
Indra. 108 by 146 mm. With Surabhi (the Cow of Plenty) Indra prostrates himself before Krishna and begs forgiveness for having poured down rain on the cow-herds of Braja. It was this storm which led Krishna to shelter them by holding up Mount Govardhan.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

2150. Add Or 2541v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2541v
Title:
Indra before Krishna
Scope & Content:
Indra. Numbered ‘f.121’ in nagari. 105 by 145 mm. With folded hands Indra speaks to Krishna, and Surabhi stands by. In the foreground water with lotuses; in the background houses and trees.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

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