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201. WD3280

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3280
Title:
Inscribed on reverse: 'The Kôt at Katmandoo during the Dussera'. Artist(s): Oldfield, Henry Ambrose (1822-1871)
Scope & Content:
Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Kôt at Katmandoo during the Dussera’. Water-colour; 37.8 by 50 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1863
Extent:
1 Item

202. WD3665

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3665
Title:
Temple festival. Inscribed on reverse: 'Both sides - procession of the God. Nanganeri, Tinnevelly, 1931'. Artist(s): Maher, Anne Teresa Prideaux (b. 1906)
Scope & Content:
Temple festival. Inscribed: ‘A.T.P. Payne 1932’ and on reverse: ‘Both sides - procession of the God. Nanganeri, Tinnevelly, 1931. This is the god’s car’. Water-colour and chalk; 40 by 29.3 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 Item

203. WD3772

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3772
Title:
Unpublished drawing by D’Oyly for his humorous poem 'Tom Raw the Griffin'. The image of Durga being cast in to the Hooghly at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Scope & Content:
The image of Durga being cast in to the Hooghly at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Water-colour; 16.7 by 23 cm. Note: Illustration to Canto 7, lines 3933-3941
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

204. WD4035

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4035
Title:
Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house in Calcutta during Durga puja. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house during Durga puja. 23 by 43.5 cm. Note: A study for this composition, clearly not by Prinsep, is at WD4495. The subject matter and treatment is rather unlike Prinsep’s normal style, and it is possible that this i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1840s
Extent:
1 Item

205. WD4374

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4374
Title:
Muharram festival procession. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:
Muharram festival procession. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Procession of the Tazeeas during the Moohurram at the P.hatman a Moosulman Burial Ground - Benares’. Water-colour; 25.4 by 17.4 cm. Purchased 1994. Note: Reproduced in ‘Benares illustrated’, lithographed by G. Barnard, '.... the spot in wh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1831
Extent:
1 Item

206. WD4493

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4493
Title:
Album of drawings made during the artist's first tour of India.. Artist(s): Massingham, Mike (b.1952)
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings made during Massingham’s first tour of India in 1986. Cloth covered notebook purchased from a stationer in New Delhi. 290 by 230 mm. Note: Massingham’s luggage was stolen three months into this journey, so this notebook replaced the sketchbook he had originally been using. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1986
Extent:
1 Item

207. WD4495

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4495
Title:
Nautch at a grand Calcutta mansion, with English guests being entertained. Artist(s): Hutchisson, William Henry Florio (fl. 1815-1861), attributed to
Scope & Content:
A nautch party in a grand Calcutta mansion for Durga Puja, with British visitors being entertained, 1830-40. Dancers and musicians are in the centre before the seated visitors, brilliantly lit from above. The shrine with the Goddess image is in the rear, while the shadowy wings are occupied by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

208. X108(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
X108(37)
Title:
'Indian woman floating lamps on the Ganges'. Plate 37 from Simpson's 'India: ancient and modern', chromolithographs by, and published by, Day & Son, London, 1867. Artist(s): Day & Son, after Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Scope & Content:
'Indian woman floating lamps on the Ganges'. Plate 37 from Simpson's 'India: ancient and modern', chromolithographs by, and published by, Day & Son, London, 1867.. Artist(s): Day & Son, after Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 Item

209. X108(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
X108(50)
Title:
'The Dewali, or feast of lamps'. Plate 50 from Simpson's 'India: ancient and modern', chromolithographs by, and published by, Day & Son, London, 1867. Artist(s): Day & Son, after Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Scope & Content:
'The Dewali, or feast of lamps'. Plate 50 from Simpson's 'India: ancient and modern', chromolithographs by, and published by, Day & Son, London, 1867.. Artist(s): Day & Son, after Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 Item

210. X294

Reference (shelfmark):
X294
Title:
An album of 247 lithographs compiled apparently shortly after 1830 containing lithographs (and 1 engraving) mostly from the Bihar Amateur Lithographic Press run by Sir Charles D’Oyly at Patna.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
Scope & Content:
A large album of 247 lithographs of unknown provenance compiled apparently shortly after 1830 containing lithographs (and 1 engraving) mostly from the Bihar Amateur Lithographic Press run by Sir Charles D’Oyly at Patna. 144 ff. There are 66 lithographs by Charles D’Oyly himself, with signature...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

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