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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Ascetics

81. Add Or 2375

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Add Or 2375
Title:
Vaisnava ascetic seated cross-legged. Artist(s): Shiva Ram (fl. c.1840)
Scope & Content:
Vaishnava ascetic seated cross-legged on a mat holding a rosary in his right hand. By Shiva Ram, a Benares artist, c.1840. Water-colour; 8.25 by 6.25 ins. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 6 November 1962. Note: Obtained by W.G. Archer at Benares in 1948 from a Benares dealer who attribu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

82. Add Or 2433

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2433
Title:
Saiva ascetic with palm leaf fan.
Scope & Content:
Shaiva ascetic with palm leaf fan.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

83. Add Or 2434

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2434
Title:
Mendicant with fan
Scope & Content:
Mendicant with fan, etc.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

84. Add Or 2554

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Add Or 2554
Title:
A Muslim scholar, greeted by an ascetic.
Scope & Content:
A Muslim scholar, greeted by an ascetic, is seated reading a book; another book is lying on a bookrest. Inscribed: ‘34.’ Gouache; 9.75 by 7 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 Item

85. Add Or 2604

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2604
Title:
Hindu ascetic, playing a sarangi.
Scope & Content:
Hindu ascetic, playing a ‘sarangi.’ Inscribed on front: ‘Biraggee or A Religions Beggar’; on back: ‘? or Religious Beggar July 1803 Patna.’ 7.5 by 6.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

86. Add Or 2673

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2673
Title:
Holy men with visitors
Scope & Content:
Holy men with visitors. Mughal, c.1790. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Drawing with a little colour; laid down on paper. 109 by 178 mm; page 120 by 190 mm. Five holy men are seated in a landscape, one drinking from a bowl; two visiting noblemen are on the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

87. Add Or 2731

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2731
Title:
Saiva ascetic with arm upraised.
Scope & Content:
Shaiva ascetic with arm upraised ‘(urddhvabahu).’ Inscribed: ‘A Fakier doing Penance.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1785-1790
Extent:
1 Item

88. Add Or 2742

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Add Or 2742
Title:
Ascetic seated on a chauki.
Scope & Content:
Ascetic seated on a ‘chauki.’ Pen-and-ink and wash; 10.75 by 7.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1785-1790
Extent:
1 Item

89. Add Or 2936

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2936
Title:
A yogini
Scope & Content:
A yogini. 229 by 168 mm. A yogini worships the sun, pouring water from a gold pot with her attendant behind her.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

90. Add Or 3005

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3005
Title:
Two mendicants begging alms from a grain seller.
Scope & Content:
Two mendicants ‘(suthra shahi)’ begging alms from a grain seller who is seated in his shop. By an artist from the Punjab Hills working in the Punjab Plains probably at Lahore or Amritsar, c.1850. Gouache; red border with black and white rules; 7.5 by 9.75 ins. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item