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032-003048417 Collection Area Visual Arts

31. Photo 124(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(1)
Title:
Madaria Faqir, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of a Muslim ascetic against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 124(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(8)
Title:
Dosadh (syce), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a Dosadh 'syce' or groom taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. The aboriginal Dosadh tribe were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca during the nineteenth century.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 124(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(12)
Title:
Acharj, Acharya, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of a youth against a plain background by an unknown photographer taken in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 124(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(40)
Title:
Urdha-Bahu Sannyasi, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Print showing a 'sanyasi' or wandering Hindu mendicant taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 124(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(67)
Title:
Native musicians [Northern India]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of musicians posed with drums, gongs and a trumpet-like instrument in front of a European building. Possibly photographed in the Darjeeling area.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 124(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(33)
Title:
[Portrait of a young woman, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length portrait of a girl, posed against a plain background, naked to the waist. Second copy neg at B.9386. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Encountering India, 16 May - 17 August 1997. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 124(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(44)
Title:
[Group of (?)leatherworkers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of Bangladeshi leatherworkers posed with the tools of their trade taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 124(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(3)
Title:
[Scholar with book, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait against a plain background of the bespectacled figure of a Muslim scholar posed with a book by an unknown photographer and taken in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 124(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(36)
Title:
[Unidentified female group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of two Bangladeshi women taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 124(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(51)
Title:
[unidentified ethnic group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait taken by an unknown photographer of five men posed in front of a temporary studio in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item