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1. Add Or 1875

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Add Or 1875
Title:
The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head.
Scope & Content:
The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head. Note: Compare Add.Or.3364. For ‘the sheep husband’, a phrase employed at Bengali weddings for taunting or teasing the bridegroom, but perhaps also used for satirizing female domination, see W.G...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 3351

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Add Or 3351
Title:
The musk-rat raja holding court among his subjects, with a tame cat being taunted
Scope & Content:
The musk-rat raja holding court. A musk-rat sits on a throne, holding a hookah, a pennant above him. Below him, another musk-rat, also holding a pennant, rides on a tame cat. Two other musk-rats appear to taunt the cat. Note: Illustration of a proverb perhaps on the lines of ‘the tables turn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

3. Mss Eur F85/58, ff.1-2

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Mss Eur F85/58, ff.1-2
Title:
2 drawings: Caricature of Henry Lawrence, 1846; and Henry Lawrence, Lord Gough and Henry Hardinge. 5 July 1846. Artist(s): Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin (1819-1868)
Scope & Content:
f.1 Caricature of Henry Lawrence. 1846. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Adventurer in the Punjab. Latest Edition of Edwardes’s last - done at Kudlee 11th Octr’. Pen-and-ink; 9 by 7 ins. f.2 Henry Lawrence, Lord Gough and Henry Hardinge (previously identified as Frederick Currie). 5 July 1846....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD494

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WD494
Title:
'The Calcutta Cotillion'. Caricature of various Calcutta residents. c. 1796 from a sketch of c. 1775. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
Scope & Content:
'The Calcutta Cotillion'. Caricature of various Calcutta residents. c.1796 from a sketch of c.1775. Inscribed on front in ink: The Calcutta Cotillion. Copied from one by Colonel Green; also inscribed with names of dancers. Pen-and-ink and wash; 5.5 by 14 ins. Purchased 19 October 1914. No...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD495

Reference (shelfmark):
WD495
Title:
Servants at work in the kitchen of a European house in Bengal. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
Scope & Content:
Servants at work in the kitchen of a European house in Bengal. c.1796. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘A Bengal Kitchen. Published in Calcutta.’ Pen-and-ink and wash; 10.5 by 13.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD496

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WD496
Title:
'The Times'. A young Englishman deferring payment of a bill while his hookah-burdar tends his pipe and his punkah-wallah fans him. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
Scope & Content:
'The Times'. A young Englishman deferring payment of a bill while his hookah-burdar tends his pipe and his punkah-wallah fans him. c.1796. Inscribed on front in ink: The Times. Published in Calcutta by J. Moffat. 1796. Pen-and-ink and wash; 8.25 by 11.25 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD497

Reference (shelfmark):
WD497
Title:
'Knowing Ones at Work'. A young Englishman making up his accounts with his Indian servants. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
Scope & Content:
'Knowing Ones at Work'. A young Englishmnan making up his accounts with his Indian servants. c.1796. Inscribed on front in ink: Knowing Ones at Work. Published in Calcutta by J. Moffat. December 1798. Pen-and-ink wash; 8.75 by 10 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 Item

8. WD1024

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1024
Title:
Caricature of Lieutenant Lake surveying a river. Artist(s): Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin (1819-1868)
Scope & Content:
Caricature of Lieutenant Lake surveying a river. 1845. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Lieut Lake, Engr. ascertaining the capabilities of the Guggur River for Irrigation. Herbert Edwardes scratched it. Simla, 1845’. Pen-and-ink; 8 by 12.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

9. WD1102

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1102
Title:
Meat Contractor to 1st Bedfords, Ambala (Punjab). January 1897. Artist(s): Rybot, Norman Victor Lacey (1876-1961)
Scope & Content:
Meat Contractor to 1st Bedfords, Ambala (Punjab). January 1897. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Famine in India. One of the starving at Ambala. A sketch at'Rations'. Meat Contractor. 1st Bedfords. Jan. 1897. N.L.R.’ Water-colour; 6.75 by 5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 Item

10. WD1222

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1222
Title:
Caricature of Tibetan wall-painting. Artist(s): Rybot, Norman Victor Lacey (1876-1961)
Scope & Content:
Caricature of Tibetan wall-painting. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Saint George without the Dragon by Rybotticelli from the Uffizi Palace, Florence. Rybotticelli Pinxit, mxiiixx.’ Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 7.5 by 7 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 Item