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1. Add Or 4038

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4038
Title:
Colonel Jacob Petrus (1755-1850) seated on a veranda smoking a hookah
Scope & Content:
Colonel Jacob Petrus (1755-1850) wearing a top hat, blue breeches and a black jacket with an orange collar and cuffs, seated on a veranda smoking a hookah. His sword rests on a footstool. A servant wearing a green flowered jacket stands behind him holding a chowrie. By a Delhi artist, c.1840....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 4362

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4362
Title:
The Begum Samru, half-length, seated smoking a hookah
Scope & Content:
Portrait of the Begum Samru, half length facing slightly to the right and holding the snake of a hookah. She wears a fur hat, with dangling pearl ‘sarpech’ and a pearl necklace, and is enveloped in a heavy yellow shawl, with red and blue lining. The background is uniformly dark grey. By a Del...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 5600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5600
Title:
Raja Shamsher Sen of Mandi (r.1727-1781) smoking a hookah.
Scope & Content:
Raja Shamsher Sen of Mandi is presented kneeling on a terrace and drawing a hookah pipe to his lips. He is accompanied by an attendant standing directly behind waving a white handkerchief and a second attendant sitting by the base of the hookah. Mandi, 1760-70 Inscribed in takri: 'sri danpal' ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760-1770
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 5607

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5607
Title:
A visit to a Shaivite hermitage.
Scope & Content:
A visit to a Shaivite hermitage. Murshidabad, c.1760s 250 x 267 mm; page 298 x 413 mm Two women and a small child have travelled in a palanquin to visit a group of ascetics at their hut. They present gifts and offerings to the ascetics.One of the ascetics, a woman, smoking a hookah, leans on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760s
Extent:
1 Item

5. Foster 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 108
Title:
Hasan Reza Khan, minister to Asaf al-Daula of Oudh. Seated on a sofa with his right hand on a sword and his left holding the stem of a hookah. Artist(s): Zoffany, Johann (1733-1810)
Scope & Content:
Hasan Reza Khan, minister to Asaf al-Daula, 1784 Seated on a sofa with his right hand on a sword and his left holding the stem of a hookah with a crystal mouthpiece and decorated with tinsel and appliqué velvet. The red turban is plain and the dress is of white muslim ornamented with jewelled ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1784
Extent:
1 Item

6. P1641

Reference (shelfmark):
P1641
Title:
'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Scope & Content:
'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1785
Extent:
1 Item

7. P1652

Reference (shelfmark):
P1652
Title:
'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Scope & Content:
'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1785
Extent:
1 Item

8. W421/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
W421/1(18)
Title:
1. Doorga Das 2. Maharana Sheer, Sing of Reeah. Opposite p. 749 in vol. 1 of Tod's 'Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India,' published by Smith, Elder & Co., Calkin & Budd, London, 1829. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857)
Scope & Content:
1. Doorga Das 2. Maharana Sheer, Sing of Reeah. Opposite p. 749 in vol. 1 of Tod's 'Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India,' published by Smith, Elder & Co., Calkin & Budd, London, 1829.. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 Item

9. W421/1(frontis)

Reference (shelfmark):
W421/1(frontis)
Title:
Maharana Bheem Sing. Prince of Oodipoor. Frontispiece in vol. 1 of Tod's 'Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India,' printed by M. Queen, published by Smith, Elder and Co., Calkin and Budd, London, 1829. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857) after Waugh, Patrick Young (1788-1829)
Scope & Content:
Maharana Bheem Sing. Prince of Oodipoor. Frontispiece in vol. 1 of Tod's 'Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India,' printed by M. Queen, published by Smith, Elder and Co., Calkin and Budd, London, 1829.. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-185...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 Item

10. W4998(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
W4998(19)
Title:
'A Mahomedan of Distrinction with a Dervise on his Pilgrimage. .. Jam. Forbes, 1768. .. 1812.' Pl. 19, in Forbes, J. 'Oriental Memoirs.' Volume 1. London: 1813. Artist(s): Wageman, T., after Forbes, James (1749-1819)
Scope & Content:
'A Mahomedan of Distrinction with a Dervise on his Pilgrimage. ... Jam. Forbes, 1768. ... 1812.' Pl. 19, in Forbes, J. 'Oriental Memoirs.' Volume 1. London: 1813.. Artist(s): Wageman, T., after Forbes, James (1749-1819)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812-1813
Extent:
1 Item