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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 4178
Title:: Kalki avatar of Vishnu, four-armed and horse-headed. One of 6 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities
Scope & Content:: Kalki avatar of Vishnu, four-armed and horse-headed.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 4290
Title:: A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.
Scope & Content:: A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee. The groom and bridegroom are accompanied by torch baring attendants and musicians. Inscribed on the opposite page: ‘A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.’ Water-colour; 105 by...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1790
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 4305
Title:: Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert's racehorse
Scope & Content:: f.4 A grey horse, rather fly-blown, with cropped tail, mane and (apparently!) ears, facing right, an Indian jockey up in maroon and dark blue colours, against a softly painted landscape and unpainted sky. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in pencil on reverse: ‘Sir Walte...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 4306
Title:: A bay horse, facing right
Scope & Content:: f.5 A bay horse, facing right, against the same background as the preceding. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘For James Macnabb from Raleigh Gilbert’. Water-colour and body-colour; 245 by 408 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 4493
Title:: A chestnut stallion and a black-faced fat-tailed sheep standing in a yard
Scope & Content:: A chestnut stallion and a black-faced fat-tailed sheep standing in a yard. By a Delhi artist, c.1815-20. Inscribed below, in ink over an original pencil inscription: ‘Erin go bragh & the Arab sheep Sheelah. The neck too short of the horse.’. Water-colour; 37 by 52.5 cm, on paper watermar...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1815-1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5260
Title:: Durga Das Rathor(1638-c.1710), white-bearded, rides a grey stallion, preceded by an attendant on foot with a chowrie.. Artist(s): Wajid (fl. 1680-1710)
Scope & Content:: Durga Das Rathor(1638-c.1710), white-bearded, rides a grey stallion, preceded by an attendant on foot with a chowrie. By Wajid, c.1708. Inscribed on reverse in ‘nagari’: ‘surati rathod durga das ji sri/ wajid.’ [Likeness of Durga Das Rathor. Wajid.] Opaque water-colour and gold; 32.5 by 26cm...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1708
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5379
Title:: The god Kubera on a horse.
Scope & Content:: The god Kubera on a horse. Inscribed below: ‘Coobaroodod on a White Horse. 15.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5475, f.19(b)
Title:: A syce leading a caparisoned horse. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:: A syce leading a caparisoned horse.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842-1844
Extent:: 1 Item

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