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1. Add Or 1841

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Add Or 1841
Title:
Ascetic. Artist(s): Gopal Lal (c.1870)
Scope & Content:
Ascetic. Pencil; 8 by 6.25 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 2375

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Add Or 2375
Title:
Vaisnava ascetic seated cross-legged. Artist(s): Shiva Ram (fl. c.1840)
Scope & Content:
Vaishnava ascetic seated cross-legged on a mat holding a rosary in his right hand. By Shiva Ram, a Benares artist, c.1840. Water-colour; 8.25 by 6.25 ins. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 6 November 1962. Note: Obtained by W.G. Archer at Benares in 1948 from a Benares dealer who attribu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2554

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2554
Title:
A Muslim scholar, greeted by an ascetic.
Scope & Content:
A Muslim scholar, greeted by an ascetic, is seated reading a book; another book is lying on a bookrest. Inscribed: ‘34.’ Gouache; 9.75 by 7 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3005

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3005
Title:
Two mendicants begging alms from a grain seller.
Scope & Content:
Two mendicants ‘(suthra shahi)’ begging alms from a grain seller who is seated in his shop. By an artist from the Punjab Hills working in the Punjab Plains probably at Lahore or Amritsar, c.1850. Gouache; red border with black and white rules; 7.5 by 9.75 ins. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3336

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3336
Title:
Chaitanya and his disciple Nityananda.
Scope & Content:
Caitanya and his disciple Nityananda. 455 by 280 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3368

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3368
Title:
Vaisnava mendicant with a crow on his pate.. Artist(s): Nibaran Chandra Ghosh (c.1835-1930)
Scope & Content:
Vaisnava mendicant with a crow on his pate. 455 by 255 mm. Published: Jain, Jyotindra, 'Kalighat Painting, Images of a Changing World', Mapin Publishing, 1999, no. 83, p. 85
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3370

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3370
Title:
Chaitanya and his disciple Nityananda. Artist(s): Kanai Lal Ghosh (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
A painting illustrating a religious subject. Caitanya and his disciple Nityananda. By Kanai Lal Ghosh, Kalighat, c.1925. Water-colour, unfinished; 455 by 280 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer at Kalighat in 1932 from the artist Kanai Lal Ghosh (born 1907), a relation of Nibaran and Kali Charan Gh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3946

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3946
Title:
Ascetic with a spear, spearpoints in his turban, and a chain on his foot
Scope & Content:
Ascetic with a spear, spearpoints in his turban, and a chain on his foot. Inscribed: ‘Begger’ [sic] ‘ a Man with Iron Chain.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3974

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3974
Title:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a gorakdhanda (iron instrument with rings). Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830), attributed to
Scope & Content:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a ‘gorakdhanda’ (iron instrument with rings). Water-colour: 248 by 198 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1810
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3997

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3997
Title:
A woman with a child kneeling at the feet of an 'Ordbhawn' (urdhvabahu) ascetic. After Charles D'Oyly.. Artist(s): Shiva Lal (c.1820-80)
Scope & Content:
A woman with a child kneeling at the feet of an ‘Ordbhawn’ (‘urdhvabahu’) ascetic with upraised arm. In the background a temple and river. Water-colour; 190 by 171 mm. Note: This picture is a copy of plate 10 in Sir Charles D’Oyly, ‘Costume of India’ (Patna, 1830). Siva Lal knew several Eur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1860
Extent:
1 Item