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040-003131002 Collection Area Visual Arts

131. Photo 1000/42(4363)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4363)
Title:
Group of Purriar Meenas, robber tribe of Rajasthan. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of four men, posed in front of a thatched house, and armed with matchlocks, bows and other weapons. This print appears (in oval format) in vol. VII no. 341 of The People of India (8 vols., London, 1868-74), from which the caption is taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

132. Photo 1000/42(4387)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4387)
Title:
Group of Malaiyalis, Shevaroy Hills. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Numbered 2712 on mount. Two men and two women posed against the exterior of a tent.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

133. Photo 1000/42(4352)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4352)
Title:
Studio portrait of Parbhu group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Studio portrait of fourteen Parbhu men and a child. All the men wear the characteristic turban. See note at print 4349. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

134. Photo 1000/42(4355)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4355)
Title:
Studio portrait of Sonar group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of an older, seated man, with a younger man and two boys standing on either side. All wear the distinctive flat, circular turban. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

135. Photo 1000/42(4388)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4388)
Title:
Group portrait of representatives of the five hills tribes of the Nilgiris: Irulas, Badagas, Todas, Kotas, Kurumbas. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group portrait, with two representatives from each of the fives tribes, posed in front of a tent with characteristic artefacts (weapons, musical instruments, etc). With measuring rod placed to one side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

136. Photo 1000/42(4378)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4378)
Title:
Studio portrait of Khan Bahadur Padanjee Pestonjee, Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length seated portrait.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

137. Photo 1000/42(4382)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4382)
Title:
Portrait of T. Schaya Jangar, Professor at Madras University. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated portrait.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

138. Photo 1000/42(4337)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4337)
Title:
Andamanese group with Mr Homfray, their keeper, photographed at Calcutta. Photographer: Saché and Westfield
Scope & Content:
Portrait of seven Andamanese youths and Jeremiah Nelson Homfray, Superintendent of the Andamanese Orphanage. Oval image. The Andamanese were brought to Calcutta, where they were displayed to the members of the Asiatic Society, before being taken to the studio of Saché and Westfield, where they w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:
1 item

139. Photo 1000/42(4342)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4342)
Title:
Portrait of the Nimbalkar of Satara (a Maratha), at Bombay Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

140. Photo 1000/42(4377)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4377)
Title:
Portrait of Sagramji, Thakur Sahib of Gondal, Kathiawar District. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Numbered 1726 in pencil on mount below print. Full-length seated portrait. The lithographed portrait of Sagrami in R. H. Jalbhoy, The portrait gallery of Western India (Bombay, 1886), plate 13, is based on this photograph. The statuette seen in prints 4375-4376, is also present in this portrait.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 item