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Collection Area Visual Arts

2681. Add Or 2583

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2583
Title:
Kama and Padmavati with their child Brishetu, Kama with a saw. Padmavati and Kama pleading with the Brahmin for the child's life.. Artist(s): Jugal Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Kama with the child, Brishetu, who has been born to him and his wife. Below Padmavati seated with Brishetu in her lap, Kama standing with a saw. Below, Padmavati, Brishetu and Kama, holding a saw, go to the Brahmin to plead for the child’s life.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2682. Add Or 2584

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2584
Title:
Kama and Padmavati behead the child and Kama cooks the body. Padmavati hides the head.. Artist(s): Jugal Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
On the Brahmin’s orders, Kama and Padmavati behead the child and Kama cooks the body in a pot. Padmavati hides the head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2683. Add Or 2585

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2585
Title:
Kama tells Padmavati to take the head to the Brahmin. The Brahmin orders Kama to cook the head and adore Krishna.. Artist(s): Jugal Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Kama tells her she must take the head to the Brahmin. She falls in a faint at his feet. Kama and Padmavati produce the head before the Brahmin who orders Kama to cook the head also and then go and adore Krishna.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2684. Add Or 2586

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2586
Title:
Kama stands alone. Five dancers perform Kirtan and praise Krishna. The child is restored whole to Kama. Artist(s): Jugal Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Kama stands alone. Five dancers with drum and cymbals perform ‘kirtan’ and praise Krishna. The child is restored whole to Kama.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2685. Add Or 2587

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2587
Title:
Kama and Padmavati fall at the Brahmin's feet and recognise him as Krishna . Krishna revealed as Visnu.. Artist(s): Jugal Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Kama and Padmavati fall at the Brahmin’s feet and recognise him as Krishna. The child Brishetu stands before him. Krishna reveals himself to them as Visnu.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2686. Add Or 2588

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2588
Title:
The Jagannatha trio reduced to essentials.
Scope & Content:
The Jagannatha trio. Similar to Add.Or.3682. By a citrakar of Puri, Puri district, Orissa, late-nineteenth century. Gouache on paper; 185 by 205 mm. Acquired by W.G. Archer from members of the painter community in a suburb of Puri, December 1933. Presented by Michael Archer, 1969.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880-1900
Extent:
1 Item

2687. Add Or 2589-2593

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2589-2593
Title:
Five designs for Sir Richard Temple's book The Thirty-seven Nats
Scope & Content:
Five designs for Sir Richard Carnac Temple’s proposed book, ‘The Thirty-seven Nats’, eventually published London, 1906. By Burmese artists, c.1890. Inscribed in pencil with notes by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. Water-colour; 48 by 69 cms. Presented by Sir Richard Temple, together with Burmese ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

2688. Add Or 2594

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2594
Title:
Raja Sarabhoji of Tanjore (1798-1832) riding on horseback in procession followed by his son Sivaji (ruled 1832-53)
Scope & Content:
Raja Sarabhoji of Tanjore (1777-1832, ruled 1798-1832) riding on horseback in procession followed by his son Sivaji (ruled 1832-53). The raja is preceded by elephants, musicians and red and gold banners. Behind him are attendants with parasol, fly-whisk and fans; in the foreground, soldiers an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

2689. Add Or 2595

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2595
Title:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula of Oudh (1775-97) celebrating the Muharram festival.
Scope & Content:
Nawab Asaf al-Daula celebrating the Muharram festival at Lucknow. He is seated at night in the Imambara listening to the maulvi reading from the scriptures. The maulvi sits in the centre on a dais beneath a canopy. The Nawab sits below on a rug smoking a hookah, with his sword and shield lyin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1812
Extent:
1 Item

2690. Add Or 2595, Add Or 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2595, Add Or 2600
Title:
Add.Or.2595; Add.Or.2600 2 drawings depicting Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97). By a Murshidabad artist, c.1812. Note: Although acquired by the L ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.2595; Add.Or.2600 2 drawings depicting Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97). By a Murshidabad artist, c.1812. Note: Although acquired by the Library separately, both drawings originally came from a set belonging to Sir George Nugent, Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811-15. His wife was ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1811-1813
Extent:
2 items

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