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Collection Area Visual Arts Level [40] File

2161. Add Or 2555

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2555
Title:
A mounted spearman, perhaps a Maratha.
Scope & Content:
A mounted spearman, perhaps a Maratha. Inscribed: ‘36.’ Gouache; 10 by 7.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 Item

2162. Add Or 2556

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2556
Title:
Admiral Hughes, holding his tree-corned hat in his had, stands facing Mrs. Oakeley who wears a panniered dress and elaborate feathered head-dress.
Scope & Content:
Admiral Hughes, holding his three-cornered hat in his hand, stands facing Mrs Oakeley who wears a panniered dress and elaborate feathered head-dress. Inscribed: ‘Admiral Hughs & Mrs. Oakeley. 64.’ Gouache; 10 by 7.5 ins. Note: Admiral Sir Edward Hughes (1720?-94) was Commander-in-Chief, E...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 Item

2163. Add Or 2557

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2557
Title:
A grasshopper, painted on a letter form Ishwari Prasad to W.G.Archer.. Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
Scope & Content:
A grasshopper, painted on a letter from Ishwari Prasad to W.G. Archer. Water-colour; 8 by 5.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2164. Add Or 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2558
Title:
A large tiger with red tongue, brown skin and black spots.- Satya Pir.. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A large ‘tiger’ with red tongue, brown skin and black spots mounted by a figure in red jacket, holding a rosary and club. The archway of a shrine above. Note: Identified by the artist as the tigers’god, Satya Pir.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2165. Add Or 2559

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2559
Title:
Muslim devotees before a shrine of a pir. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Muslim devotees, one on the left with pointed beard, two on the right with straggly beards, sitting holding ‘sacred’ books beside the shrine of a Muslim ‘pir’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2166. Add Or 2560

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2560
Title:
A yellow tiger with black spots, whiskers and ear-rings mounted by a small figure in red jacket and blue scarf.. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A large yellow ‘tiger’ with black spots, whiskers and ear-rings mounted by a small figure in red jacket and blue scarf, waving an iron circle and holding a small club. The tassels of a shrine hanging from above.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2167. Add Or 2561

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2561
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - majestic figures. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads standing on the stumps of trees, a slightly shorter female figure with arms across her chest between them; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with black face and chest, both with rudimentary arms sprouting from their shoulders. Not...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2168. Add Or 2562

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2562
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival. - white monkey. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A white monkey-like figure with yellow shorts and scarf, attended by a monkey-like companion, kneels before a large yellow bird with goose-like head and beak and with white plumage striped with red. Below, a leader with scarf aceompanied by an attendant and a fan-bearer approaching a red, three...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2169. Add Or 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2563
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, three Santals with upraised arrms accompanied by two drummers, the leading one with a ‘tamak,’ the other with a ‘tumdak’, pro’ceeding to the sacred grove. Below, the priest leaning on a staff and conducting four Santal assistants bearing a winnowing fan and a basket, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2170. Add Or 2564

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2564
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - sacrificing and dancing. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha Festival. At the sacred grove, two Santals blowing buffalo horns, the priest kneeling and offering a chicken, to the right two other Santals with a second chicken. Five pieces of cloth hanging on two trees. Below, four Santal women with sprigs of sal tree blossom in their hair dancin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

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