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1. Add Or 5633

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5633
Title:
Sita hands Rama a garland
Scope & Content:
Few images could be more auspicious for the walls of a bridal chamber than one invoking the marriage of Rama and Sita. Designs for a family’s marriage paintings would traditionally be carried in women’s heads, since as girls they would help the elder women prepare the rooms. Sometimes the desi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 2000
Extent:
1 Item

2. Mss Eur C14, ff.45-51

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C14, ff.45-51
Title:
4 drawings depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical instruments and pottery from an album of 46 drawings, the remainder illustrating the costumes of Bihar.
Scope & Content:
See Kaye no.170. 46 drawings (57 folios); 42 illustrating costumes worn by Hindu and Muhammadan men and women in Bihar, and 4 depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical instruments and pottery. Costume drawings c.1814; ethnographical drawings c.1808 to 1809. Inscribed with titles in ink. ff.1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1808
Extent:
1 Item

3. WD487

Reference (shelfmark):
WD487
Title:
A river scene, probably on the Ganges near Patna (Bihar). 22 January 1827. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Scope & Content:
A river scene, probably on the Ganges near Patna (Bihar). 22 January 1827. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘C. D’Oyly delt. 22nd Jany 1827.’ Water-colour; 3.5 by 5.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD970

Reference (shelfmark):
WD970
Title:
Landscape, probably in Bihar, with a temple beside a tank. Artist(s): Bourne, Walter (fl. 1857)
Scope & Content:
Landscape, probably in Bihar, with a temple beside a tank. c.1857. Pencil; 9 by 11 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD1009

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1009
Title:
A Santal tribesman with a bow. 3 March 1859. Signed 'W.P.P.'
Scope & Content:
A Santal tribesman with a bow - 3 March 1859. Sitaram took part in the campaign against the Santals of Bihar in 1855. His regiment was stationed at Raniganj (see Chapter XIV, 137). Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘1859;’ ‘W.W.P. March 3rd,’ in ink: ‘1855. Soubah of Bengal. A Sountal, or San...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD2058

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2058
Title:
Horse portrait; Beggar Girl, a black horse with a jockey in red and purple, beside a post. Owner, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. Gilbert of the Ramgarh Battalion, Bihar. Artist(s): MacLeod, Alexander Francis Peter (1787-1829)
Scope & Content:
Horse portrait; ‘Beggar Girl’, a black horse with a jockey in red and purple, beside a post. Owner, Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert of the Ramgarh Battalion, Bihar. c.1825. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Beggar Girl. The property of Colonel W.R. Gilbert.’ ‘A.F.P. MaCleod Pinxit.’ Water-colour; 16...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item