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1. Add Or 23

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Add Or 23
Title:
Majnun in the wilderness
Scope & Content:
Majnun in the wilderness. Oudh, c.1770-80. Purchased from Thakur J. Seesodia, November 1931. Gouache with gold; on an album leaf with a wide margin of carnations in gold on a plain background. 227 by 158 mm; page 477 by 315 mm. Reverse: a quatrain in praise of God, written in ‘nasta‘liq’ ca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 2789

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Add Or 2789
Title:
Layla repulsing the advances of her husband Ibn Salam. Artist(s): Sadiq, style of
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: Layla repulsing the advances of her husband Ibn Salam. The couple are seated on a carpet with stone balustrade behind; a maid brings a dish of refreshments. Foreground, grass with two glass decanters and a tumbler on a tray. Style of Sadiq. Late eighteenth century. 13 b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1775-1800
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2864

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Add Or 2864
Title:
Man begging forgiveness of a princess
Scope & Content:
A man begging forgiveness. Mughal, c.1790. Formerly Album 70, no.72; acquired 21 April 1915. Inscribed beneath: ‘Chundar’ ... ‘and Meyar’ (?). Gouache; unfinished; uncoloured border. 210 by 150 mm; page 253 by 197 mm. In a landscape a man prostrates himself before a princess and her retinu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 2865

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Add Or 2865
Title:
The tryst; a lady swimming to meet her lover
Scope & Content:
The tryst. Delhi, c.1900. Formerly Album 70, no.62; acquired 21 April 1915. Gouache with gold; lilac border. 223 by 151 mm; page 266 by 185 mm. A lady is fording a river at night to meet her lover who waits on the opposite bank on horseback. There are peacocks in the tree above and lightni...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3846

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Add Or 3846
Title:
A prince at a well being given water by a girl
Scope & Content:
A prince at a well. Hyderabad, c.1780. Presented by Michael Archer, December 1975. Inscribed on the reverse by Col. Gayer-Anderson: to ‘my valued Friend ‘W.G.’ in recognition of his many kindnesses and of his acumen in the ‘Bargain Basement’ from T.G.G.- A. 7.12.53’; collection number ‘GA P....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3907

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Add Or 3907
Title:
Laila and Majnun in the desert. Artist(s): Mahamed Huseen (fl.1910s)
Scope & Content:
Laila and Majnun in the desert, c.1914. Inscribed on back of original mount in ink: ‘The subject Laila and Majnun by Mahamed Huseen. The Property of Percy Brown Esq. c/o Messrs Grindlay & Co., 54 Parliament Street, Westminster, London S.W.1.’ Water-colour; 267 by 178 mm. Presented by Mm...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1914
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. Add Or 5634

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Add Or 5634
Title:
The stubborn heroine. Artist(s): Sahib Din (fl.1628-53)
Scope & Content:
The stubborn heroine. By the Mewar artist Sahib Din, c. 1630-35. Inscribed above in nagari: Canto 7, verse 15 from Kesavadas’ Rasikapriya. Inscribed on verso: Inventory note from Bikaner Royal Collection am 43 jam 86 san 1751 asu sambhaliya (AD 1694) and in another hand ‘94’ noting the sequen...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-35
Extent:
1 Item

9. Or 4122

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Or 4122
Title:
Yusuf u Zulaikha by Jami. One double-page and twelve single miniatures. Borders with gold-painted designs.
Scope & Content:
‘Yusuf u Zulaikha’ by Jami. One double-page and twelve single miniatures. Borders with gold-painted designs. Shiraz/Safavid. ‘c.’ 1580. Literature: Rieu, Supp. p.189. Titley no. 214. f.1b. Sulaiman surrounded by angels and jinns, ‘simurghs,’ birds and animals. f.2a. Balkis surrounded by jinns...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1580
Extent:
1 Item

10. Or 4938

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4938
Title:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari.
Scope & Content:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari. Qajar. Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. Literature: Rieu, Supp. p.262. Titley no. 42. B. W. Robinson, ‘Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles’,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1886
Extent:
1 Item