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811. Add Or 3950

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3950
Title:
Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert's race-horse, 'Beggar Girl', standing on the race course at Hazaribagh
Scope & Content:
Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert’s race-horse, ‘Beggar Girl’, standing on the race course at Hazaribagh, with cloud-capped hills in the distance. Inscribed on front in sky in pencil: ‘No. 2’; and in ink below: ‘Beggar Girl with a view of the Race Course at Hazarreebaug.’ ‘426’ by 655 mm. Note: Gilb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

812. Add Or 3951

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3951
Title:
A pink lotus
Scope & Content:
A pink lotus (‘Nelumbo nucifera/’family Nelumbanaceae) showing the full plant including stem and root, with close-ups of leaf, flower, fruit and seed of a particularly fine specimen. Inscribed on front: ‘Lotus. Flower & Leaf. Full size 6 feet 4 inches from the root to the top of the flowe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

813. Add Or 3960

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3960
Title:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook
Scope & Content:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook. Inscribed on front: ‘Our head servant. A Mussalman.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

814. Add Or 3960-3968

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3960-3968
Title:
Add.Or.3960-3968 9 drawings from a set depicting servants, methods of transport, occupations and festivals. By a Cuttack artist, c.1840. Inscribed on ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3960-3968 9 drawings from a set depicting servants, methods of transport, occupations and festivals. By a Cuttack artist, c.1840. Inscribed on front with titles and explanatory notes. Water-colour; 285 by 227 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1841
Extent:
9 items

815. Add Or 3961

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3961
Title:
A Hindu servant
Scope & Content:
A Hindu servant with white coat and crimson edged dhoti. Inscribed on front: ‘A Hindoo Servant.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

816. Add Or 3962

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3962
Title:
Four palanquin bearers carrying an English lady in a tonjon
Scope & Content:
Four palanquin bearers carrying an English lady in a tonjon. Inscribed on front: ‘A lady taking an airing in a Tonjon. Bengal bearers.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

817. Add Or 3963

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3963
Title:
A watercarrier (bhisti) with his bullock and water-skins
Scope & Content:
A watercarrier (‘bhisti’) with his bullock and water-skins. Inscribed on front: ‘A Bheastie, a man that brings water round by a Bullock. the bags are made of Pig’s skin.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

818. Add Or 3964

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3964
Title:
Two women grinding flour
Scope & Content:
Two women grinding flour, another woman with a baby and a child look on. Four children on the left; on the right a ‘tulsi’ shrine. Inscribed: ‘Grinding flour.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

819. Add Or 3965

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3965
Title:
Women husking paddy with a dhenki
Scope & Content:
Women husking paddy with a ‘dhenki’. In the background a village house and a storage jar for grain.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

820. Add Or 3966

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3966
Title:
A woman ginning cotton, a man (dhuniya) carding it and a woman spinning
Scope & Content:
A woman ginning cotton, a man (‘dhuniya’) carding it and a woman spinning. Inscribed on front: ‘Spinning the Cotton. Taking seeds out of the Cotton Beating out the Cotton.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item