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201. Add Or 3345

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Add Or 3345
Title:
Durga on her lion trampling on Mahishasura.
Scope & Content:
Durga on her lion trampling on Mahishasura. 440 by 280 mm Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.42.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

202. Add Or 3346

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Add Or 3346
Title:
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple.
Scope & Content:
The Mahant sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple. The Mahant (high priest of the Siva temple, Tarakesvar) holds a ‘nargila’ pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him stand three women - Elokesi, the young wife of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 Item

203. Add Or 3346-3347

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3346-3347
Title:
Add.Or.3346-3347 Two paintings depicting episodes from the Tarakesvar murder. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1875. Water-colour with silver details; varying ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3346-3347 Two paintings depicting episodes from the Tarakesvar murder. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1875. Water-colour with silver details; varying sizes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1874-1876
Extent:
2 items

204. Add Or 3347

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3347
Title:
The Mahant fans Elokeshi who sits on a chair holding a rose.
Scope & Content:
The Mahant fans Elokesi who sits on a chair holding a rose while the Mahant dressed only in a ‘dhoti’ stands beside her fanning her with a punkah. 458 by 286 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer in London, 1955. Purchased 1974. Note: Following her first visit to the Tarakesvar shrine, Elokesi was pr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 Item

205. Add Or 3348

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3348
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

206. Add Or 3348-3352, Add Or 3842

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Add Or 3348-3352, Add Or 3842
Title:
Add.Or.3348-3352; Add.Or.3842 Six paintings illustrating: (a) four scenes of current Calcutta life (b) two proverbs. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1880. Wat ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3348-3352; Add.Or.3842 Six paintings illustrating: (a) four scenes of current Calcutta life (b) two proverbs. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1880. Water-colour heightened with silver; 455 by 280 mm Acquired by W.G. Archer in London, July 1965. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
6 items

207. Add Or 3349

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3349
Title:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan. Exhibited South Bank Centre, Kalighat Paintings, Leicester Museum 27 November 1993 - 9 January 1994; Edinburgh 15 January - 20 February 1994; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 26 February - 10 April 1994; Oxford Museum of Modern Art, 16 April -19 June 1994. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

208. Add Or 3350

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3350
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

209. Add Or 3351

Reference (shelfmark):
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

210. Add Or 3352

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3352
Title:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Scope & Content:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item