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2622. Add Or 2535
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- Add Or 2535
- Title:
- Temple car being drawn in procession by devotees.
- Scope & Content:
- Temple car being drawn in procession by devotees. Inscribed on back: ‘No.11 A Swamy Coach.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2623. Add Or 2536
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2536
- Title:
- Composite picture. Kama God of Love, impersonated by a woman mounted on a horse composed of five women.
- Scope & Content:
- Composite picture. Kama, the god of love, impersonated by a woman, mounted on a horse composed of five women. Inscribed on back: ‘A Horse made of women.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2624. Add Or 2537
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2537
- Title:
- Portrait of Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934). Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
- Scope & Content:
- Portrait of Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934), half-length, seated on an ivory chair, a red, rolled blind above. By Ishwari Prasad, a Patna artist working in Calcutta, c.1904. Water-colour; 7.75 by 5.25 ins. Presented by the subject’s daughter, Lady Sonia Wilson, together with Photo 273, 18 ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1904
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2625. Add Or 2538
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2538
- Title:
- Akbar II (1806-37). Artist(s): Ghulam 'Ali Khan (fl.1817-1852)
- Scope & Content:
- Akbar II, a halo round his head, wears a fur-trimmed padded coat. He is seated holding a hookah-snake in his left hand, and a writing case lies on the floor beside him. Inscribed on back of original frame in Persian with an English translation: ‘The auspicious Portrait of His Majesty, exalted a...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1827
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2626. Add Or 2538-2539
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2538-2539
- Title:
- Add.Or.2538-2539 2 ivory miniatures depicting the Mughal emperor, Akbar II, and his second son, Mirza Muhammad Salim. By Ghulam ‘Ali Khan, a Delhi pai ...
- Scope & Content:
- Add.Or.2538-2539 2 ivory miniatures depicting the Mughal emperor, Akbar II, and his second son, Mirza Muhammad Salim. By Ghulam ‘Ali Khan, a Delhi painter, c.1827. Inscribed on back of original frames with a Persian inscription by the artist and an English translation and notes by Lord Amhers...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1827-1827
- Extent:
- 2 items
2627. Add Or 2539
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2539
- Title:
- Mirza Salim. second son of Akbar II. Artist(s): Ghulam 'Ali Khan (fl.1817-1852)
- Scope & Content:
- Prince Mirza Muhammad Salim, the Emperor’s second son. The prince is seated holding a hookah snake in his right hand. He wears a fur-trimmed padded pillar and draped curtains behind him.. Inscribed on back of original frame in Persian with an English translation: ‘The Portrait of the Lord of th...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1827
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2628. Add Or 2540
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2540
- Title:
- Ghazi al-Din Haidar, Nawab and King of Oudh (1814-27)
- Scope & Content:
- Portrait of Ghazi al-Din Haidar (Nawab and, after 1819, King of Oudh, 1814-27). Head and shoulders, wearing a crown and ermine cape. By a Lucknow artist, 1826. Inscribed on back, probably by Lord Amherst: ‘King of Oude 1826. Ghazi ood Deen Hyder King of Oude.’ Oval; water-colour on ivory; 2.5...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1826
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2629. Add Or 2541
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2541
- Title:
- Indra before Krishna
- Scope & Content:
- Indra. 108 by 146 mm. With Surabhi (the Cow of Plenty) Indra prostrates himself before Krishna and begs forgiveness for having poured down rain on the cow-herds of Braja. It was this storm which led Krishna to shelter them by holding up Mount Govardhan.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1780
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2630. Add Or 2541-2544
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2541-2544
- Title:
- Add.Or.2541-2544 Four leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Bhagavata Purana.’ Nagpur, c.1780. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded; Keith (1935), no.67 ...
- Scope & Content:
- Add.Or.2541-2544 Four leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Bhagavata Purana.’ Nagpur, c.1780. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded; Keith (1935), no.6713. Each folio has four or five lines of Sanskrit text in nagari characters in the centre, with five to eight lines of commentary above and be...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1779-1781
- Extent:
- 6 items