Image of Vishnu being carried in procession. Inscribed: ‘Image of Streerangam being carried in Procession to the Temple. A strikingly correct representation. Mark the difference in the appearance and dress of the various parties of the Group. 1. The Brahmin. 2. Bearers. 3. Singers. 4. Dah...
Muharram Festival. Inscribed: ‘A Mohammedan Procession commemorative (as far as I can judge) of some event connected with the Subjugation of the Natives of India who are represented in a ridiculous and degrading light, & bound together with Chains. The Man on the Camel & the [ones] dre...
Hook-swinging Festival ‘(Charak Puja).’ Inscribed: ‘Churnick Poojah or Swinging Festival. Requires to be surounded with a dense crowd of delighted spectators to give anything like an idea of the reality, but still strikingly correct so far as it is given.’
Add.Or.680-706 27 paintings portraying trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, c.1805. Inscribed on back with titles. Gouache; 4 by 10 ...
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Add.Or.680-706 27 paintings portraying trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, c.1805. Inscribed on back with titles. Gouache; 4 by 10 ins.approx. Purchased 4 April 1956 NOTE : In style similar to Add.Or.32-38. At the time of purchase these paintings were in a portfolio ins...
Penitent and wife; the woman carries gourds, the man cuts his thigh with a knife and pours liquid over the wound
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Penitent and wife; the woman carries gourds and the man cuts his thigh with a knife and pours liquid over the wound. Inscribed: ‘A Cullul Siddel & his Wife.’
Maharaja Gulab Singh (1792-1857), ruler of Jammu and Kashmir (1845-57).
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Maharaja Gulab Singh (1792-18 5 7), ruler of Jammu and Kashmir (1846-57). Punjab Plains, Sikh, c.1840-45. Purchased 26 October 1954 from Mrs Vandaleur, a descendant of Sir Herbert Edwardes, assistant to Henry Lawrence, resident at Lahore in 1847 and 1848. The pictures were found amongst Edwar...