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1. Add Or 357

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Add Or 357
Title:
A girl playing a tambura
Scope & Content:
A girl with a tambur. Murshidabad, c.1770. Purchased March 1958. Inscribed incorrectly on a slip of paper in Urdu pasted on the reverse: ‘4, chaharom, ragini bhakarah-i meghi malar’ (4, fourth, ‘Bhakarah Ragini’ of’ Megha Malar).’ Gouache with gold; on album pages with pink, blue, and plain ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 1837

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Add Or 1837
Title:
Three musicians
Scope & Content:
Three musicians. By a Patna artist, c.1840. Brush drawing; 5.75 by 3.75ins. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 1 May 1961. Note: Obtained by W.G. Archer from Ishwari Prasad at Patna in 1948.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 4663

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4663
Title:
A drawing composed of different Indian types based on the work of François Baltazard Solvyns
Scope & Content:
A drawing composed of different Indian types based on the work of François Baltazard Solvyns. Three musicians and six servant-types in a large Calcutta room. Through a doorway we can see into a bedroom beyond, containing a four-poster bed with muslin furnishings. Water-colour and body-colour; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 5258

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5258
Title:
The Tambura Player. Artist(s): Haldar, Asit Kumar (1890-1964)
Scope & Content:
The Tambura Player: a girl sitting on a terrace pensively fingering a tambura), c.1920. Inscribed below in Bengali: ‘ki sur baje amar prane ami jani ami-i man-i jane’. Water-colour heightened with gum arabic; 98 by 98 mm. Purchased 1996.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 5475, f.38

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Add Or 5475, f.38
Title:
The panel of Florentine pietra dura work representing Orpheus charming the wild animals with his music, installed at the back of the throne in the jharoka of the Diwan-i 'Am in the Delhi palace. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
The panel of Florentine ‘pietra dura’ work representing Orpheus charming the wild animals with his music, installed at the back of throne in the ‘jharoka.’ 23.5 by 15.5 cm. Note: See Ebba Koch, ‘Shah Jahan and Orpheus’, Graz, 1988.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 5577

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5577
Title:
Malkos Raga from the dispersed 'Boston Ragamala'
Scope & Content:
Malkos raga, from the so-called ‘Boston Ragamala’ In vertical format, the usual three tiers of this series include an elephant fight at the bottom outside the palace wall; a pillared room in the palace where the princely hero sits with the heroine in his lap accepting ‘pan’ from a female atten...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1695-1700
Extent:
1 Item

7. P1654

Reference (shelfmark):
P1654
Title:
'Natives of the Molucca Islands playing on musical instruments called the Rabania. Engraving by Lerpiniere for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Scope & Content:
'Natives of the Molucca Islands playing on musical instruments called the Rabania. Engraving by Lerpiniere for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1785
Extent:
1 Item

8. P2507

Reference (shelfmark):
P2507
Title:
'A morning concert'. Lithograph by W. Sharp from James Prinsep's Benares Illustrated, Calcutta 1830-33; London 1831-4. Artist(s): Sharp, William (1749-1824), after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:
'A morning concert'. Lithograph by W. Sharp from James Prinsep's Benares Illustrated, Calcutta 1830-33; London 1831-4.. Artist(s): Sharp, William (1749-1824), after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1831
Extent:
1 Item

9. W2126(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
W2126(9)
Title:
Procession of a Hindoo woman to the funeral pile of her husband. Plate 9 from 'Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783,' published by J. Edwards, Pall Mall, London, 1793. Artist(s): Skelton, William (1763-1848), after Hodges, William (1744-1797)
Scope & Content:
Procession of a Hindoo woman to the funeral pile of her husband. Plate 9 from 'Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783,' published by J. Edwards, Pall Mall, London, 1793.. Artist(s): Skelton, William (1763-1848), after Hodges, William (1744-1797)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1793
Extent:
1 Item

10. X43(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
X43(19)
Title:
Purtaub Singh. Plate 19 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-1869)
Scope & Content:
Purtaub Singh. Plate 19 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844.. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-1869)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 Item