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881. Add Or 4020

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4020
Title:
Sweetmeat seller. Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
Scope & Content:
Sweetmeat seller. Signed on front: ‘I. P...d.’ Water-colour; 152 by 115 mm. Note: Reproduced M Archer, ‘Patna Painting’ (London, 1947), pl.47.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
1 Item

882. Add Or 4021

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4021
Title:
Study of two birds on a leafy spray. Artist(s): Jagrup Lal (c.1800-1860)
Scope & Content:
Study of two birds on a leafy spray. Inscribed on front in nagari characters: ...... Note: This drawing is a copy of one of Webb Smith’s drawings now at Cambridge.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

883. Add Or 4021-4022

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4021-4022
Title:
Add.Or.4021-4022 2 studies of birds on a branch. By Jagrup Lal (c.1800-1860), an Arrah artist, c.1830. Water-colour; 210 by 172 mm. From the collectio ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4021-4022 2 studies of birds on a branch. By Jagrup Lal (c.1800-1860), an Arrah artist, c.1830. Water-colour; 210 by 172 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: Purchased by W.G. Archer at Patna in 1948 from the family collection of Ishwari Prasad w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1829-1831
Extent:
2 items

884. Add Or 4022

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4022
Title:
Study of two birds on a leafy spray. Artist(s): Jagrup Lal (c.1800-1860)
Scope & Content:
Study of two birds on a leafy spray. Inscribed on front in nagari characters:........
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

885. Add Or 4023

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4023
Title:
Horse portrait. Artist(s): Dallu Lal (c.1850)
Scope & Content:
Horse portrait. By Dallu Lal, a Benaras artist, c.1850. Inscribed on back in nagari characters: ‘Ghora Duldul’ (Horse Duldul). Water-colour; purple and fawn mount; 190 by 228 mm, with mount 292 by 330 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: Purchased by W....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

886. Add Or 4024

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4024
Title:
Lemur.
Scope & Content:
Lemur. By a Benares artist, c.1850. Water-colour; 170 by 106 mm, with border 216 by 145 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: Acquired by W.G. Archer from a Benares dealer, July 1942.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

887. Add Or 4025

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4025
Title:
An Indian woman, perhaps a singer, standing in an archway on a patterned floor.
Scope & Content:
An Indian woman, perhaps a singer, standing in an archway on a patterned floor. By a Lucknow artist, c.1780. Inscribed on back: ‘A woman of rank in the Dress of the Country.’ Gouache; black border; 254 by 165 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: From th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

888. Add Or 4026

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4026
Title:
Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, seated on a European-style settee holding a sword
Scope & Content:
Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Lucknow (1775-97), seated on a European-style settee holding a sword, the sharpness of which he tests with his thumb. By a Lucknow artist, c.1790. Gouache; 235 by 160 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: The painting is probably a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

889. Add Or 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4027
Title:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival
Scope & Content:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival, are calling at a house for alms. A youth dances on a blue hobby-horse (‘lili ghora’), a woman is pouring rice into the cloth of another dancer. By a Lucknow artist, c.1800. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 280 by 254 mm. From th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

890. Add Or 4028

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4028
Title:
A bugle player
Scope & Content:
A bugle player; in the background a hilly landscape. Inscribed on front: ‘A Bugle Player;’ and numbered in pencil: ‘53.’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item