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511. Add Or 20

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Add Or 20
Title:
Rama with Hanuman
Scope & Content:
Rama with Hanuman. Kangra, c.1800. Purchased from Alister Matthews, December 1950. Gouache, with gold; decorated dark blue border on sprinkled pink margin. 202 by 158 mm; page 250 by 223 mm. Rama with four attendants is riding a white horse in a hilly landscape, preceded by an attendant and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

512. Add Or 21, Add Or 210

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Add Or 21, Add Or 210
Title:
Add.Or.21, Add.Or.210 Two miniature paintings from a manuscript of the ‘Shahnama’ of Firdawsi. Indian (Sultanate): mid fifteenth century. The style is ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.21, Add.Or.210 Two miniature paintings from a manuscript of the ‘Shahnama’ of Firdawsi. Indian (Sultanate): mid fifteenth century. The style is now generally admitted to be Indian, but the strong Persian (Shiraz) influence and the fact that till recently such paintings were invariably ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1449-1451
Extent:
2 items

513. Add Or 22

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Add Or 22
Title:
A female Christian saint. Artist(s): Mir Kalan Khan (fl.c.1760-80) style of
Scope & Content:
A female Christian saint. Style of Mir Kalan Khan, Lucknow, c.1780. Purchased from Thakur J. Seesodia, November 1931. Gouache with gold; on an album page with blue and apricot borders sprinkled with gold. 235 by 143 mm; page 476 by 316 mm. The saint sits reading a book at the foot of an asc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

514. 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

515. Add Or 24

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Add Or 24
Title:
The rite of sati. Artist(s): Bahadur Singh (fl. 1760-90)
Scope & Content:
The rite of sati. By Bahadur Singh, Lucknow, c.1780. Purchased. Signed in Persian characters: ‘‘amal-i bahadur singh’ (the work of Bahadur Singh); four lines of Sanskrit beneath the picture are a quotation from the ‘Yajñavalkyasmrti’ and its commentary describing the rite of ‘sati.’ Tinted d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

516. Add Or 25

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Add Or 25
Title:
Visnu and his ten avatars.
Scope & Content:
Visnu and his ten avatars. South India, c.1800. Presented by Sir John Sinclair, 8 July 1806, when other drawings of Madras were presented by him. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Incarnations of Vishnow for Sir John Sinclair Baronet of Ulbster [sic]. Presented by Sir John Sinclair.’ Gouache with g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

517. Add Or 26

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Add Or 26
Title:
Radha makes love to Krishna
Scope & Content:
An illustration to the Rasikapriya of Keshav Das. Kangra, c.1820. Purchased March 1955. Inscribed on reverse with seven lines of Hindi verse from the ‘Rasikapriya’ of Keshav Das. Gouache with gold; oval with yellow borders heightened with gold; spandrels with floral motifs and white decorati...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

518. Add Or 29

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Add Or 29
Title:
Durga Puja. Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830)
Scope & Content:
Durga Puja. Male dancers and musicians performing before an image of the goddess Durga installed inside a house. On the left a group of three men seated on painted stools, one smoking a hookah. By Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830), a Patna artist, c.1809. Water-colour; 11 by 8.5 ins. Purchased 14 N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1809
Extent:
1 Item

519. Add Or 32-38

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Add Or 32-38
Title:
Add.Or.32-38 7 paintings depicting trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, c.1805. Inscribed on front in Tamil and also in English by a ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.32-38 7 paintings depicting trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, c.1805. Inscribed on front in Tamil and also in English by an Indian. Gouache; 18 by 12.5 ins. Purchased 10 November 1954. Note: Similar in style to Add.Or.680-706.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1802-1804
Extent:
7 items

520. Add Or 39-70

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Add Or 39-70
Title:
Add.Or.39-70 32 drawings bound into a volume, 24 depicting castes and occupations of South India, 2 festivals, 5 methods of transport and one showing ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.39-70 32 drawings bound into a volume, 24 depicting castes and occupations of South India, 2 festivals, 5 methods of transport and one showing a European house in Vellore. Probably by a Tanjore artist, working at Vellore, c.1828. Inscribed with titles. Water-marks of 1823 and 1826. G...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827-1829
Extent:
32 items

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