Cook returning from the bazaar followed by a coolie carrying vegetables.. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
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Cook returning from the bazaar followed by a coolie carrying vegetables and poultry. Water-colour; 9 by 7.5 ins. Note: Reproduced Archer (1947), pl.26.
Cook in his kitchen with oven and spit. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s) studio of
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Cook in his kitchen with oven and spit. He is stirring a saucepan and holding a bamboo punkah. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Cook’; and numbered: ‘18.’ 256 by 206 mm. within a black rule. Note: The same subject as Add.Or.187, except that here the background is unpainted.
A cook, holding a grid-iron and a spit-iron. Inscribed below: ‘Cook’; and ‘Zain al-‘Abidin musavvir; bavarci’. Water-colour heightened with white; 151 by 110 mm.
Mohammed der Gatroner [Mahomed the cook]. Photographer: Salingré, Emil
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the expedition's cook, holding a flintlock musket. The notes accompanying the collection state that this man had also served on expeditions with Barth to Timbuctoo and Nachtigal with Kuka. Some retouching on print.