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571. Add Or 478-481

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Add Or 478-481
Title:
Add.Or.478-481 4 drawings depicting occupations. By E.C. Das, a Calcutta artist, c.1846. Inscribed with titles and signed by the artist. Water-colour; ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.478-481 4 drawings depicting occupations. By E.C. Das, a Calcutta artist, c.1846. Inscribed with titles and signed by the artist. Water-colour; 11.25 by 7.75 ins. Purchased 6 January 1957. Note: Although the figures are on a slightly smaller scale these drawings are clearly related ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845-1847
Extent:
4 items

572. Add Or 479

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Add Or 479
Title:
Steward. Artist(s): Das, E.C. (c.1846)
Scope & Content:
Steward. Inscribed: ‘Dewan or Bill Collector. E.C. Doss.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1846
Extent:
1 Item

573. Add Or 480

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Add Or 480
Title:
Barber. Artist(s): Das, E.C. (c.1846)
Scope & Content:
Barber. Inscribed: ‘Barber. E C. Doss.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1846
Extent:
1 Item

574. Add Or 481

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Add Or 481
Title:
House-steward holding pen case and papers.. Artist(s): Das, E.C. (c.1846)
Scope & Content:
House-steward holding pen-case and papers. Inscribed: ‘Sircar or Bill Collector. E.C. Doss.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1846
Extent:
1 Item

575. Add Or 482

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Add Or 482
Title:
A suitor dressed as a vina player fainting before his mistress
Scope & Content:
A vina-player fainting. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue border with leaf pattern in gold. 253 by 170 mm; page 315 by 231 mm. A suitor dressed as a minstrel with a peacock-feather in his headdress has entered the presence of a princess and her ladies...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

576. Add Or 483

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 483
Title:
A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims
Scope & Content:
A scene at a shrine. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Welch (1963), no.84; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 23. A shrine to Siva, flying a red banner from the roof pi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

577. Add Or 484

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Add Or 484
Title:
A river scene with a nobleman in a morpunkhi, with a shrine and travellers
Scope & Content:
A river scene. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 24. In the middle of the river is a peacock barge in which a wealthy nobleman rides, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

578. Add Or 485

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 485
Title:
Kakubha Ragini. Artist(s): Fath Chand (fl.c.1750-60)
Scope & Content:
Kakubha Ragini. By Fath Chand, Mughal, c.1750-60. Purchased January 1957. Inscribed on border in Persian: ‘‘amal-i fath chand’ (the work of Fath Chand). Gouache with gold; blind gold panel above; on an album leaf with borders of tinted paper decorated with gold sprinkling and arabesques. 11...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1750-1760
Extent:
1 Item

579. Add Or 486

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Add Or 486
Title:
Golden Temple, Amritsar
Scope & Content:
The Golden Temple, Amritsar (Punjab). By an Amritsar artist, c.1860. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i sri darbar sahib jiv waqi‘ah i shahr i Amritsar -jiv parastish-gah i Sikhan’ (Picture of the Holy Sikh Temple situated in the city of Amritsar; the holy worshipping place of the Sik...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

580. Add Or 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 487
Title:
A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground.. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s)
Scope & Content:
A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Shaikh Muhammad Amir musauwir sakin i Karraya’ (Shaikh Muhammad Amir painter, resident of Karraya); on back of original mount: ‘Maggy Lauder’ (perhaps the names of the ho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1845
Extent:
1 Item

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