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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Ascetics

101. Add Or 3370

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Add Or 3370
Title:
Chaitanya and his disciple Nityananda. Artist(s): Kanai Lal Ghosh (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
A painting illustrating a religious subject. Caitanya and his disciple Nityananda. By Kanai Lal Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1925. Water-colour, unfinished; 455 by 280 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer at Kalighat in 1932 from the artist Kanai Lal Ghosh (born 1907), a relation of Nibaran and Kali Charan Gh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 Item

102. Add Or 3800

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Add Or 3800
Title:
An ascetic balancing on a rope above a fire
Scope & Content:
An ascetic balancing on a rope above a fire; a man and woman standing by. Inscribed on front in pencil; ‘The Sage swinging upon the rope, under fire.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

103. Add Or 3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3809
Title:
Man requesting alms of a youth
Scope & Content:
A man requesting alms of a youth. Mughal, c.1890 (after a Persian original). Presented by Lady Fermor, February 1975. Drawing with touches of colour; on an album page with outer border of flowers in gold. 136 by 95 mm; page 325 by 225 mm. A man bearing a staff and a begging-bowl requests al...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

104. Add Or 3946

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3946
Title:
Ascetic with a spear, spearpoints in his turban, and a chain on his foot
Scope & Content:
Ascetic with a spear, spearpoints in his turban, and a chain on his foot. Inscribed: ‘Begger’ [sic] ‘ a Man with Iron Chain.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

105. Add Or 3974

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3974
Title:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a gorakdhanda (iron instrument with rings). Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830), attributed to
Scope & Content:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a ‘gorakdhanda’ (iron instrument with rings). Water-colour: 248 by 198 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1810
Extent:
1 Item

106. Add Or 3997

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3997
Title:
A woman with a child kneeling at the feet of an 'Ordbhawn' (urdhvabahu) ascetic. After Charles D'Oyly.. Artist(s): Shiva Lal (c.1820-80)
Scope & Content:
A woman with a child kneeling at the feet of an ‘Ordbhawn’ (‘urdhvabahu’) ascetic with upraised arm. In the background a temple and river. Water-colour; 190 by 171 mm. Note: This picture is a copy of plate 10 in Sir Charles D’Oyly, ‘Costume of India’ (Patna, 1830). Siva Lal knew several Eur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1860
Extent:
1 Item

107. Add Or 4014

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4014
Title:
Gorakia Fakirs. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a ‘gorakhdanda’ (iron instrument with rings). Water-colour; 178 by 165 mm. Note: The composition of this picture has remained identical since Sewak Ram’s painting of c.1810.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

108. Add Or 4108

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4108
Title:
Three ascetics enjoying a hookah
Scope & Content:
Three ascetics enjoying a hookah. By a Delhi artist, c.1830. 90 by 106 mm..
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

109. Add Or 4162

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4162
Title:
A Vaisnava mendicant armed with a large bowl, flag and palm-leaf manuscript
Scope & Content:
A Vaishnava mendicant armed with a large bowl, flag and palm-leaf manuscript, wearing a high, flat-topped turban. 202 by 162 mm. Note: He is called a Satana (= ‘cattani’) in Add.Or.1641 and a Wusteewar in Add.Or 50.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

110. Add Or 4175

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4175
Title:
A Sivalingam under a tree, with a sage and devotee. One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
Scope & Content:
A ‘Sivalingam’ under a tree, with a sage and devotee.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item