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1. Add Or 373

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Add Or 373
Title:
Snake charmer
Scope & Content:
Snake-charmer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 676

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 676
Title:
Snake-charmers.
Scope & Content:
Snake-charmers. Inscribed: ‘A Group of Native Serpent Charmers. Nothing would give a Stranger a better idea of the reality than this representation.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 1235

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1235
Title:
Snake-charmer
Scope & Content:
Snake-charmer. Inscribed: ‘Snake Charmer.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1798-1804
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 1425

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1425
Title:
Snake-charmers
Scope & Content:
Snake-charmers. Inscribed: ‘Bengali sapada.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 1512

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1512
Title:
Snake charmer (a) with his bag of snakes and (b) playing to them
Scope & Content:
Snake charmer (a) with his bag of snakes and (b) playing to them. Inscribed: ‘Serpent catcher.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3472

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3472
Title:
A large yellow tiger, black-spotted except for stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
A large yellow ‘tiger’, black-spotted except for black stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967), p.81. Note: The ‘tiger’ is here regarded as Baghut bonga (see Introduction to printed catalogue). For the Shahabad cult of Baghaut (a man w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3981

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3981
Title:
Chamelion on a branch
Scope & Content:
Chamelion on a branch. Water-colour; 184 by 222 mm. Note: Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1967-69, see M Archer, ‘Indian miniatures and folk paintings’ (London, 1967) no.49.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 4179

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4179
Title:
Krishna dancing on the snake Kaliya. One of 6 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities
Scope & Content:
Krishna dancing on the snake Kaliya.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 4667

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4667
Title:
A pangolin or scaly anteater, from Lady Impey's collection. Artist(s): Zain al-Din, Shaikh (fl. c.1780)
Scope & Content:
A pangolin or scaly anteater walking towards the right, with a slight shadow against an otherwise unpainted paper ground. Each paw has five claws, with those on its front paws turned backwards as it walks. Its scales are brown and it has blue eyes. By the Calcutta artist Shaikh Zain al-Din, Cal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1779
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 4984

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4984
Title:
Two lizards on a bank with a thistle.. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
Two lizards on a bank with a thistle. By Sita Ram, c.1820. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Sacesta Verticulatus.’ Water-colour; 298 by 441 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item