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1. Add Or 8

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Add Or 8
Title:
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati riding in a moonlit landscape near Mandu
Scope & Content:
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased June 1954. Inscribed on slip of paper pasted to border in Urdu: ‘baz bahadur u rupmati, 36’ (Baz Bahadur and Rupmati, 36). Gouache with gold; on an album page with blue and red borders and gold rules, from the same album as Add.Or.4-7 e...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

2. 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

3. Add Or 2784

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Add Or 2784
Title:
A boar hunt
Scope & Content:
A boar hunt. Jaipur, c.1860. Formerly Album 69, no.17; acquired 25 September 1922 (circumstances of acquisition unrecorded). Gouache with gold; silver and red borders. 195 by 258 mm; page 235 by 310 mm. A boar hunt takes place in a sparse landscape in celebration of the Spring Festival. Fo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 2785

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Add Or 2785
Title:
A hunt
Scope & Content:
A hunt. Jaipur, c.1900. Formerly Album 69, no.18; acquired 25 September 1922 (circumstances of acquisition unrecorded). Gouache with gold; unfinished 210 by 300 mm. Two horsemen dressed in green are chasing deer up a hillside; other men are running on foot, one with a hound which chases a bo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 2862

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Add Or 2862
Title:
A night encounter
Scope & Content:
A night encounter. Mewar, c.1830. Mounted in an album, formerly Album 70; presented 21 April 1915. Gouache; yellow and red borders. 226 by 158 mm; page 290 by 205 mm. A lover climbs a rope to reach his mistress, as her maidens show dismay and the guards sleep beneath.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 2870

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Add Or 2870
Title:
A young prince returning from hawking
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: Return from hawking. A young prince (face damaged) wearing a turban of Mughal type, mounted, hawk on wrist, preceded by his footman or groom (face also damaged) on foot, carrying a dead duck. Plain background. Rather rubbed and discoloured; a tear (repaired) across the mid...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1590-1600
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3004

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Add Or 3004
Title:
A prince enthroned in the countryside
Scope & Content:
A prince enthroned in the countryside. Ahmadnagar, c.1595-1600. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Inscribed in Persian: ‘Muhammad Qutb(?) Shah.’ Drawing with gold; on an album page with undecorated border. 206 by 130 mm; page 240 by 162 mm. Reverse: a drawing of a simurgh. A youthf...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1595-1600
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3118

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Add Or 3118
Title:
Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh) at a cock-fight with Europeans.
Scope & Content:
Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97) at a cock-fight. The Nawab, in white ‘jama’ and red trousers, crouches beside an English officer, wearing a red coat and white trousers, watching a cock-fight. Three other European officers stand behind with a number of Indian gentlemen. A servant holds a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1835
Extent:
1 Item

9. 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

10. Add Or 3847

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Add Or 3847
Title:
Playing cards for the game of Ramayana Ganjifa
Scope & Content:
Playing cards for the game of Ramayana Ganjifa. Orissa, Sonpur, early 20th century. Presented 24 November 1922. A set of 144 circular cards made of paper, painted and lacquered; divided into 12 suits; contained in a wooden box with sliding top, painted with simple decoration and the figure of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1930
Extent:
1 Item