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631. Add Or 5607

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5607
Title:
A visit to a Shaivite hermitage.
Scope & Content:
A visit to a Shaivite hermitage. Murshidabad, c.1760s 250 x 267 mm; page 298 x 413 mm Two women and a small child have travelled in a palanquin to visit a group of ascetics at their hut. They present gifts and offerings to the ascetics.One of the ascetics, a woman, smoking a hookah, leans on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760s
Extent:
1 Item

632. Add Or 5610

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5610
Title:
Front view of the entrance to the Kalyana Mandapam of the Jalakantesvara Temple, Vellore.
Scope & Content:
Another front view of the same structure is held in the British Library' Department of Maps. It is a drawing by an Indian artist commissioned by John Call in 1762, and it includes a floor plan. (Maps K.Top.115.80.2)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
1 Item

633. 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

634. Add Or 5700

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5700
Title:
A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort. Artist(s): Nidhamal (fl.mid 18th century)
Scope & Content:
A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort Attributed to Nidhamal, Lucknow, 1760-65 206 x 315 mm Published: Losty and Roy 2012, pp.186-187.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760-1765
Extent:
1 Item

635. Add Or 5725

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5725
Title:
Lakshman cuts of the nose of Shurpanakha
Scope & Content:
Lakshman cuts of the nose of Shurpanakha A folio from the Impey Ramayana Murshidabad, 1760-70 Gouache and gold on paper Painting: 29 x 18.3 cm; Folio: 32.4 x 21.7 cm Purchased 2013 The Ramayana is one of the great Sanskrit epics narrating the story of Rama, prince of Ayodhya, who lived in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760
Extent:
1 Item

636. IO San 3621, f.1

Reference (shelfmark):
IO San 3621, f.1
Title:
Hanuman arriving on Lanka
Scope & Content:
Hanuman arriving on the island of Lanka. Numbered folio 2. 210 by 332 mm; page 240 by 373 mm. Hanuman crouches by a hillock in the foreground, pondering how he should enter Ravana’s palace without disturbing the guards. He subsequently makes the decision to reduce himself to the size of a ca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1653
Extent:
1 Item

637. IO San 3621, f.2

Reference (shelfmark):
IO San 3621, f.2
Title:
Hanuman observing Lanka at night
Scope & Content:
Hanuman observing Lanka at night. Numbered folio 3. 207 by 330 mm; page 232 by 357 mm. Hanuman is perched on the roof of Ravana’s palace, which has its own moat, and he is also seen on the domed roofs of the main city on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1653
Extent:
1 Item

638. IO San 3621, f.3

Reference (shelfmark):
IO San 3621, f.3
Title:
Hanuman observes Ravana's interview with Sita
Scope & Content:
Hanuman in the Ashoka grove. Numbered folio 33. 210 by 356 mm; page 245 by 390 mm. From a position high in a Shingshapa tree Hanuman observes Sita attended by a band of female titans; Ravana arrives with female attendants and begs Sita to marry him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1653
Extent:
1 Item

639. IO San 3621, f.4

Reference (shelfmark):
IO San 3621, f.4
Title:
Hanuman makes his presence known to Sita
Scope & Content:
Hanuman making his presence known to Sita. Numbered folio 50. 196 by 350 mm; page 232 by 383 mm. Hanuman offers to carry Sita away to safety, but she declines fearing the retributions of the titans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1653
Extent:
1 Item

640. IO San 3621, f.5

Reference (shelfmark):
IO San 3621, f.5
Title:
Hanuman slays the Kinkaras
Scope & Content:
Hanuman slaying the Kinkaras. Numbered folio 64. 203 by 347 mm; page 240 by 382 mm. Wishing to fight with the titan armies, Hanuman creates havoc in the Ashoka grove until the alarm is raised, and then proceeds to vanquish the forces that Ravana sends against him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1653
Extent:
1 Item