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871. Add Or 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4011
Title:
Woman toddy-seller serving two customers. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Woman toddy-seller in a blue sari serving two customers dressed in white seated on a straw mat. Water-colour; 197 by 241 mm. Note: Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1967-69, see M. Archer ‘ibid,’ no.51.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

872. Add Or 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4012
Title:
Water-carrier (bhisti) with his bullock and water-skins. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Water-carrier (‘bihisti’) with his bullock and water-skins; the Ganges in the background. Water-colour; 222 by 190 mm. Note: Reproduced Mildred and W.G. Archer, ‘Indian Painting for the British’ (Oxford, 1955), pl.12, fig.26; Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1967-69, see M. Archer, ‘ibid’, no...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

873. Add Or 4013

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4013
Title:
A Vaisnavite pilgrim couple. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
A Vaishnavite pilgrim couple - the woman carrying a bundle on her head and a red pot in her hand, the man a hank of rope and a staff with a yellow flowered cloth draped on it. Water-colour; 210 by 159 mm. Note: Purchased from Mata Prasad, Benares, 1942.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

874. Add Or 4014

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4014
Title:
Gorakia Fakirs. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a ‘gorakhdanda’ (iron instrument with rings). Water-colour; 178 by 165 mm. Note: The composition of this picture has remained identical since Sewak Ram’s painting of c.1810.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

875. Add Or 4015

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4015
Title:
Ekka driver with his vehicle. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Ekka driver with his vehicle. Water-colour; 165 by 210 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

876. Add Or 4016

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4016
Title:
Bullock cart driver with his vehicle loaded with wood. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Bullock cart driver with his vehicle loaded with wood. Water-colour; 190 by 222 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

877. Add Or 4017

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4017
Title:
Green bee-eater on a leafy branch. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Green bee-eater on a leafy branch.. By Bani Lal (c.1850-1901), a Patna artist, c.1880. Water-colour; border of brown rules; 254 by 178 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: Purchased by W G Archer at Patna in 1946 from Bani Lal’s son, Shyam Bihari Lal.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

878. Add Or 4018

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4018
Title:
Composite goat. Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
Scope & Content:
Composite goat made up of a deer, tiger, elephant, rabbits, fish and a child. Signed on front: ‘Ishwari’. Pen-and-ink; 76 by 102 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
1 Item

879. Add Or 4018-4020

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4018-4020
Title:
Add.Or.4018-4020 3 miscellaneous drawings. By Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950), a Patna artist, 1942-43. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 1978. Note: ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4018-4020 3 miscellaneous drawings. By Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950), a Patna artist, 1942-43. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 1978. Note: These drawings were given to Mildred Archer by Ishwari Prasad on various occasions when he came to see her. His work represents the end of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
3 items

880. Add Or 4019

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4019
Title:
Quail with red legs and blue breast. Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
Scope & Content:
Quail with red legs and blue breast. Signed on front: ‘Ishwari Prasad.’ Water-colour; 152 by 115 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
1 Item