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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Archer Collection Subject dancers and musicians

1. Add Or 1840

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1840
Title:
Dancing girl
Scope & Content:
Cymbals player. Water-colour; 6 by 4.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 1843

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1843
Title:
Dancing girl and drummer. Artist(s): Fakir Chand Lal (c.1790-c.1865)
Scope & Content:
Dancing-girl and drummer. Wash and water-colour; 5.75 by 7.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 1852

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1852
Title:
Three dancing girls with musicians. Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830)
Scope & Content:
Three dancing girls with three musicians. Wash; 7.75 by 6.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3340

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3340
Title:
Two dancing girls.
Scope & Content:
Two dancing girls. 445 by 275 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3367

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3367
Title:
Courtesan with tambura.. Artist(s): Nibaran Chandra Ghosh (c.1835-1930)
Scope & Content:
Courtesan with ‘tambura.’ 510 by 330 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3376

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3376
Title:
A courtesan playing on a tabla. Kansaripura Art Studio. Artist(s): Kansaripura Art Studio (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A Kalighat-type chromolithograph depicting a courtesan playing on a ‘tabla.’ Printed at the Kansaripara Art Studio, 26, Kristo Das Pal’s Lane, Calcutta; 450 by 350 mm. Lettered in Bengali: ‘nalini sundari.’ Purchased by W.G. Archer in Kalighat, 1932. Purchased 1974. Note: Colour lithogr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3517

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3517
Title:
The circular dance.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The circular dance. Above, Radha and Krishna on a lotus. Below, six pairs of dancers, Krishna partnering simultaneously six different milkmaids. In all seven cases, he holds his flute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3528

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3528
Title:
The circular dance.
Scope & Content:
The circular dance. Krishna dancing simultaneously with four milkmaids and embracing Radha in their midst. Below, Krishna milking a cow, Jasoda restraining the calf. At the bottom, Krishna, Sridam and Suphal herding cows. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.72.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3860

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3860
Title:
Study of an Indian dancer. Artist(s): Chavda, Siavax (1914-1992)
Scope & Content:
Study of an Indian dancer. 1942. Signed and dated in Gujerati on front: ‘21 Sh. Chavda 42;’ on back of mount: ‘Bill from Khurshid and Shiavax. ‘53.’. Brush drawing in brown ink; 202 by 184 mm. Gift to W.G. Archer from the artist, Bombay, December 1953.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3861
Title:
Khurshid performing a Kathak dance, rear view. Artist(s): Chavda, Siavax (1914-1992)
Scope & Content:
Khurshid performing a Khatak dance, rear view. 1952. Inscribed: ‘4 Khurshid’ Pen-and-ink; 280 by 222 mm. Gift to W.G. Archer from the artist, Bombay, March 1954. Note: Khurshid is the wife of Shiavax Chavda and during the nineteen-fifties she was a well-known and successful dancer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1952
Extent:
1 Item