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1. 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

2. Add Or 2598

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Add Or 2598
Title:
Three dancing-girls with five musicians performing on a terrace, apparently at James Skinner's house
Scope & Content:
Three dancing-girls with five musicians performing on a terrace. Women sit watching on either side and servants stand behind them. In the background part of a pavilion. By a Delhi artist, c.1838. Inscribed: ‘A Nautch at Col. Skinner’s given to me by himself 1838.’ Gouache; 5.25 by 8.25 ins,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1838
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2659

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Add Or 2659
Title:
Dancing-girl seated on a sofa.
Scope & Content:
Dancing-girl in a white sari with a red border seated on a western-style sofa on a terrace. By a Lucknow artist, c.1780-90. Inscribed: ‘A Dancing Girl.’ Gouache; 8.5 by 5.75 ins. Heavy Indian ink border. Purchased 15 August 1966. Note: This drawing is almost identical in composition and su...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3376

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Add Or 3376
Title:
A courtesan playing on a tabla. Kansaripura Art Studio. Artist(s): Kansaripura Art Studio (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A Kalighat-type chromolithograph depicting a courtesan playing on a ‘tabla.’ Printed at the Kansaripara Art Studio, 26, Kristo Das Pal’s Lane, Calcutta; 450 by 350 mm. Lettered in Bengali: ‘nalini sundari.’ Purchased by W.G. Archer in Kalighat, 1932. Purchased 1974. Note: Colour lithogr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4027
Title:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival
Scope & Content:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival, are calling at a house for alms. A youth dances on a blue hobby-horse (‘lili ghora’), a woman is pouring rice into the cloth of another dancer. By a Lucknow artist, c.1800. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 280 by 254 mm. From th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 4684

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4684
Title:
A Nautch at Hindu Rao's House
Scope & Content:
A Nautch at Hindu Rao’s House. By a Delhi artist,’ c’.1840. Water-colour and gouache on paper; 178 by 286 mm. Purchased 1994. Exhibited and published in the Loan Exhibition of Antiquities at the Coronation Durbar, 1911, under the above title; pl.LXVa. Note: Hindu Rao was a famous inhabitant...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 5475, f.25v

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Add Or 5475, f.25v
Title:
'Mimicks imitating Nautch or Dancing Girls.' From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘Mimicks imitating Nautch or Dancing Girls.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 5475, f.70(b)

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Add Or 5475, f.70(b)
Title:
Dancing girls with musicians. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘Nautch or Dancing Girls.’ Inscribed: ‘nacha-i tava’if.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

9. P1970-2025

Reference (shelfmark):
P1970-2025
Title:
Incomplete series of lithographs by M.T.H. Perelaer from 'Het Kamerlid van Berkenstein in Nederlandsch-Indië door M.T.H. Perelaer Teekeningen door Jhr. J.C. Rappard'. Published in Leiden, 1888. Artist(s): Perelaer, Michael Theophile Hubert (fl. 1888)
Scope & Content:
Bound volume containing 56 lithographs by M.T.H. Perelaer from ‘Het Kamerlid van Berkenstein in Nederlansche-Indie door M.T.H. Perelaer Teekeningen door Jhr. J.C. Rappard’. Published in Leiden, 1888. NOTE: It was not until the late nineteenth century that the Dutch began publishing books of col...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

56 items

10. P2424

Reference (shelfmark):
P2424
Title:
'Bayaderes de Pondichery'. Coloured aquatint by Himely after Lauvergne. Probably published in Paris, c.1830. Artist(s): Himely, Sigismond (1801-1872), after Lauvergne, Barthelemy (1805-1871)
Scope & Content:
'Bayaderes de Pondichery'. Coloured aquatint by Himely after Lauvergne. Probably published in Paris, c.1830.. Artist(s): Himely, Sigismond (1801-1872), after Lauvergne, Barthelemy (1805-1871)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item