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1. Add Or 567

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Add Or 567
Title:
Taj Mahal, Agra, and the garden
Scope & Content:
The Taj Mahal, Agra, and the entrance gardens with trees, cypresses and flower beds; a gardener with a basket of greenery on his head in the foreground. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820. Water-colour; 22 by 27.25 ins. Narrow Indian ink border between double rules. 1816 water-mark. Purchase...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 571

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Add Or 571
Title:
The King and Queen of Burma proceeding to the royal garden
Scope & Content:
The King and Queen of Burma under royal umbrellas with their courtiers and ladies in procession proceeding to the royal garden. By a Burmese artist, 1870-85. Inscribed below in Burmese: .................. (To the royal garden). Opaque water-colour; section from a ‘parabaik’: 315 by 520 mm. P...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1885
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 740

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Add Or 740
Title:
Palladian garden-house near Madras.
Scope & Content:
Palladian garden-house near Madras. By a Madras artist, c.1790. Inscribed on mount: ‘House built by Thomas Powney Esq., 2 miles from Fort St George on the Mount Road.’ Water-colour; 6.5 by 13.25 ins. Purchased 10 August 1957. Note: Thomas Powney (1721-82) was a free merchant living in Madra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 2127-2128

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Add Or 2127-2128
Title:
Two drawings of the garden of a wealthy Chinese merchant.
Scope & Content:
2 drawings of the garden of a Chinese merchant, bound into a volume together with Add.Or.2084-2126, 2129-2196. By a Canton artist, c.1800-05. Gouache; 16.5 by 21.5 ins. Deposited c.1806. Note: Add.Or.2127-28, which are inscribed Paan Khaquar Gardens, show the garden of a wealthy Chinese merc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 4142

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Add Or 4142
Title:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Artist(s): Das, K.L. (fl. c.1920)
Scope & Content:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Water-colour on paper; 355 by 250 mm. Presented by Mr. G. Eyre and Mr. N. Hobhouse, 1982.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 5475, f.78

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Add Or 5475, f.78
Title:
The Jharna or waterfall, the overflow from the Hauz-i Shamsi, near the Qutb Minar. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘The Jhurna or Waterfall at the Kootoob constructed during the Reign of the Emperor Mohummud Shah.’ Inscribed: ‘naqsha-i chharna dar qutb.’ Note: this lies beside the Hauz-i Shamsi, whose water feeds it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 5576

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Add Or 5576
Title:
Page from a dispersed Rasamanjari depicting the heroine Anusayana 2.
Scope & Content:
A page from a ‘Rasamañjari’, showing the second Anuśāyanā heroine, who is sad on account of the hot weather putting an end to her normal trysting place with her lover in a charming grove full of young leaves and birds and peacocks. Her friend advises her to meet her lover in his house instead. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1620-1625
Extent:
1 Item

8. P18

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P18
Title:
'A view of the Botanic Garden House amd Reach'. Coloured aquatint after J. B. Fraser. Plate 4 of Views of Calcutta, published Smith Elder &Co, London, 1824-26. Artist(s): Havell, Robert (1793-1878), after Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)
Scope & Content:
'A view of the Botanic Garden House amd Reach'. Coloured aquatint after J. B. Fraser. Plate 4 of Views of Calcutta, published Smith Elder &Co, London, 1824-26.. Artist(s): Havell, Robert (1793-1878), after Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1824-1826
Extent:
1 Item

9. P146

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P146
Title:
'Lipoo Tree. Litzhur house at a distance.' Barrackpore Park. Lithograph by William Prinsep, 1827. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a house and tree in Barrackpore Park at Barakpur in West Bengal by William Prinsep (1794-1874) dated 1827. Barakpur had been a military cantonment originally, but was changed to a park and proposed country residence for Governors-General by Marquis Wellesley as part of his improvem...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

10. P1116

Reference (shelfmark):
P1116
Title:
'The Cotsea Bhaug on the River Jumna at Delhi'. Plate from the reduced version of Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery. Part 1, Pl. 3, London, 1812-13. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
'The Cotsea Bhaug on the River Jumna at Delhi'. Plate from the reduced version of Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery. Part 1, Pl. 3, London, 1812-13.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812-1816
Extent:
1 Item