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032-003269640 Collection Area Visual Arts

1. Add Or 188-209

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Add Or 188-209
Title:
Add.Or.188-209 22 paintings portraying various trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, 1797. Gouache; 14 by 9 ins approx. Mostly inscri ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.188-209 22 paintings portraying various trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, 1797. Gouache; 14 by 9 ins approx. Mostly inscribed on back with titles by an Indian, writing in English; Add.Or.188 dated 1797. Purchased 4 September 1955. Note: Closely related to Add.Or...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797-1797
Extent:
22 items

2. Add Or 201

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Add Or 201
Title:
Torch-bearer and wife
Scope & Content:
Torch-bearer ‘(mashalchi)’ and wife; the man holds a torch and a vessel of oil, his wife carries a pitcher in a basket. Inscribed: ‘Masalche Cast and his wife.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 205

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Add Or 205
Title:
Oil-seller and wife
Scope & Content:
Oil-seller and wife. Inscribed: ‘Isle Manger Cast’(i.e oil-monger).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 209

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Add Or 209
Title:
Washerman and wife.
Scope & Content:
Washerman and wife; both figures carry bundles of clothes and the man also holds an earthen pitcher. Inscribed: ‘A Washerman.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 193

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Add Or 193
Title:
Tanjore Maratha Brahmin and wife
Scope & Content:
Tanjore Maratha Brahmin and wife.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 204

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Add Or 204
Title:
Arab and wife
Scope & Content:
Arab and wife; the man is armed with a sword and buckler and holds a rose, his wife holds a betel leaf. Inscribed: ‘Araube Cast.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 194

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Add Or 194
Title:
Blacksmith and wife
Scope & Content:
Blacksmith and wife;the man is holding a vice, the woman a pair of callipers. Inscribed: ‘Ironsmith.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 196

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Add Or 196
Title:
Brass-worker and wife.
Scope & Content:
Brass-worker and wife; the man holds several implements and a brass vessel; his wife carries a brass lampstand. Inscribed: ‘Kettle Smith Cast.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 198

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Add Or 198
Title:
Fruit-seller and wife
Scope & Content:
Fruit-seller and wife; the man holds a bunch of bananas. Inscribed: ‘A Bazar Man. Shop Keepers. Fruiterer.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 206

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Add Or 206
Title:
Wrestler and wife
Scope & Content:
Wrestler and wife; the man has a dagger under his arm, his wife holds a betel leaf. Inscribed: ‘A Jattee answers to that of a Gladiator who performs.’ Note: Coloured version of Add.Or.1956.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item