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1951. Add Or 1870

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1870
Title:
Krishna and Balarama seated on the shoulders of Garuda.
Scope & Content:
Krishna and Balarama seated on the shoulders of Garuda.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1952. Add Or 1871

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1871
Title:
Durga as Jagaddhatri riding on her lion, a severed elephant's head on the ground.
Scope & Content:
Durga as Jagaddhatri (‘Sustainer of the World’) riding on her lion, a severed elephant’s head on the ground. Inscribed: ‘Jagadatri Parvati.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1953. Add Or 1872

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1872
Title:
Winged apsaras playing on a horn.
Scope & Content:
Winged’ apsaras’ playing on a horn
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1954. Add Or 1873

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1873
Title:
Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ta'ziyah on its back.
Scope & Content:
Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ‘ta’ziyah’ on its back. Note: Buraq was the winged human-headed horse that carried Muhammad to Paradise. The ‘ta’ziyahs’ which are carried in the Muharram procession are bamboo and paper constructions representing the tombs of Hasan and Husain, the grands...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1955. Add Or 1874

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1874
Title:
Freshwater prawn and fish
Scope & Content:
Freshwater prawn and fish. 430 by 280 mm. Note: For illustrations of proverbs by Kalighat painters, see W.G. Archer (1971), 46.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

1956. Add Or 1874, Add Or 1879-1882

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1874, Add Or 1879-1882
Title:
Add.Or.1874, Add.Or.1879-1882 Five paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) two scenes of current Calcutta life (c) a proverb. By patuas ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.1874, Add.Or.1879-1882 Five paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) two scenes of current Calcutta life (c) a proverb. By patuas, Kalighat, c.1880. Water-colour; all except 1874 and 1881 within black borders; varying sizes. Presented by the Christian Literature Society...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
5 items

1957. Add Or 1875

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1875
Title:
The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head.
Scope & Content:
The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head. Note: Compare Add.Or.3364. For ‘the sheep husband’, a phrase employed at Bengali weddings for taunting or teasing the bridegroom, but perhaps also used for satirizing female domination, see W.G...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1958. Add Or 1876

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1876
Title:
Courtesan nursing a peacock.
Scope & Content:
Courtesan nursing a peacock.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1959. Add Or 1877

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1877
Title:
Bengali gallant on a chair playing a tambura.
Scope & Content:
Bengali gallant seated on a chair playing a ‘tambura.’ Published: Jain, Jyotindra, 'Kalighat Painting, Images of a Changing World', Mapin Publishing, 1999, fig 107, p. 113
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

1960. Add Or 1878

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1878
Title:
Courtesan seated on a chair smoking a hookah.
Scope & Content:
Courtesan seated on a chair smoking a hookah.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

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