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71. Add Or 3

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Add Or 3
Title:
Village life in Kashmir. Artist(s): Mir Kalan Khan (fl.c.1760-80)
Scope & Content:
Village life in Kashmir. By Mir Kalan Khan, Lucknow, c.1760. Purchased 13 April 1954. Inscribed on border in Persian: ‘majlis-i kashmir, ‘amal-i mir kalan’ (A Kashmiri assembly, the work of Mir Kalan). Gouache with a little gold; on an album page with yellow and apricot borders, the outer bo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

72. Add Or 4

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Add Or 4
Title:
Gauri Ragini
Scope & Content:
Gauri Ragini. A lady is seated alone on a hillock near a lake at sundown. Inscribed in Urdu: ‘ragini gauri malkosh ki (Gauri Ragini’ of’ Malkos).’ 234 by 160 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

73. Add Or 4-7, 27, 28, 30, 31

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Add Or 4-7, 27, 28, 30, 31
Title:
Add.Or.4-7, 27, 28, 30, 31 Eight paintings from a ‘ragamala’ series. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased June 1954 and January 1955. Inscribed on borders w ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4-7, 27, 28, 30, 31 Eight paintings from a ‘ragamala’ series. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased June 1954 and January 1955. Inscribed on borders with identifications in Urdu. Gouache with gold; on album pages with blue and red borders and gold rules; the edges reinforced with magenta si...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1759-1761
Extent:
8 items

74. Add Or 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5
Title:
Lalita Ragini
Scope & Content:
Lalita Ragini. A lover is departing from his sleeping mistress at dawn. Inscribed in Urdu: ‘ragini lalit hindol ki (Lalita Ragini’ of’ Hindola).’ 231 by 158 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

75. Add Or 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 6
Title:
Vibhasa Ragini
Scope & Content:
Vibhasa Ragini. The lover is rising from his lady’s bed at dawn to shoot the cock which awakens them. . Inscribed in Urdu: ‘rag malkosh (Malkos Raga).’ 234 by 160 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

76. Add Or 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 7
Title:
Ramakali Ragini
Scope & Content:
Ramakali Ragini. A lady spurns her repentant lover who kneels before her. Inscribed in Urdu: ‘ragini ramkali hindol ki (Ramakali Ragini’ of’ Hindola).’ 232 by 157 mm. Reproduced: Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 22.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

77. Add Or 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 8
Title:
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati riding in a moonlit landscape near Mandu
Scope & Content:
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased June 1954. Inscribed on slip of paper pasted to border in Urdu: ‘baz bahadur u rupmati, 36’ (Baz Bahadur and Rupmati, 36). Gouache with gold; on an album page with blue and red borders and gold rules, from the same album as Add.Or.4-7 e...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

78. Add Or 9

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Title:
Vasudeva and Krishna
Scope & Content:
Vasudeva and Krishna. Numbered ‘f.19’ in nagari. 130 by 112 mm. Vasudeva arrives to remove the infant Krishna while guards sleep outside and on the roof.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

79. Add Or 9-14

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Add Or 9-14
Title:
Add.Or.9-14 Six leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Bhagavata Purana.’ Nagpur, c.1780. Purchased 1954. Each folio has three to seven lines of Sanskrit te ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.9-14 Six leaves from a manuscript of the ‘Bhagavata Purana.’ Nagpur, c.1780. Purchased 1954. Each folio has three to seven lines of Sanskrit text in nagari characters in the centre, with two to seven lines of commentary above and below; vertical rules in gold, black and red; vertical ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1779-1781
Extent:
6 items

80. Add Or 10

Reference (shelfmark):
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Title:
Devaki and Vasudeva
Scope & Content:
Devaki and Vasudeva. Numbered ‘f.21’ in nagari. 140 by 222 mm. Devaki sits with the changeling child, Vasudeva, chained at the end of the bed. The guards are asleep outside and on the roof.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

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