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1811. Add Or 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4011
Title:
Woman toddy-seller serving two customers. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Woman toddy-seller in a blue sari serving two customers dressed in white seated on a straw mat. Water-colour; 197 by 241 mm. Note: Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1967-69, see M. Archer ‘ibid,’ no.51.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

1812. Add Or 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4012
Title:
Water-carrier (bhisti) with his bullock and water-skins. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Water-carrier (‘bihisti’) with his bullock and water-skins; the Ganges in the background. Water-colour; 222 by 190 mm. Note: Reproduced Mildred and W.G. Archer, ‘Indian Painting for the British’ (Oxford, 1955), pl.12, fig.26; Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1967-69, see M. Archer, ‘ibid’, no...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

1813. Add Or 4013

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4013
Title:
A Vaisnavite pilgrim couple. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
A Vaishnavite pilgrim couple - the woman carrying a bundle on her head and a red pot in her hand, the man a hank of rope and a staff with a yellow flowered cloth draped on it. Water-colour; 210 by 159 mm. Note: Purchased from Mata Prasad, Benares, 1942.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

1814. Add Or 4014

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4014
Title:
Gorakia Fakirs. Artist(s): Bani Lal (c.1850-1901)
Scope & Content:
Gorakia Fakirs: one holding aloft a brazier, a second holding a ‘gorakhdanda’ (iron instrument with rings). Water-colour; 178 by 165 mm. Note: The composition of this picture has remained identical since Sewak Ram’s painting of c.1810.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

1815. Add Or 4020

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4020
Title:
Sweetmeat seller. Artist(s): Ishwari Prasad (c.1870-1950)
Scope & Content:
Sweetmeat seller. Signed on front: ‘I. P...d.’ Water-colour; 152 by 115 mm. Note: Reproduced M Archer, ‘Patna Painting’ (London, 1947), pl.47.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
1 Item

1816. Add Or 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4027
Title:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival
Scope & Content:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival, are calling at a house for alms. A youth dances on a blue hobby-horse (‘lili ghora’), a woman is pouring rice into the cloth of another dancer. By a Lucknow artist, c.1800. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 280 by 254 mm. From th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

1817. Add Or 4028

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4028
Title:
A bugle player
Scope & Content:
A bugle player; in the background a hilly landscape. Inscribed on front: ‘A Bugle Player;’ and numbered in pencil: ‘53.’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item

1818. Add Or 4029

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4029
Title:
A tambura player
Scope & Content:
A tambura player seated on a green and blue striped durrie against a background of a wall and a distant landscape. Inscribed on front: ‘A man playing on the guitar;’ and numbered in pencil: ‘87’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item

1819. Add Or 4030

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4030
Title:
Table-servant (Khitmatgar) with glass and bottle
Scope & Content:
Table-servant (‘Khitmatgar’) with glass and bottle. By a Lucknow artist, c.1830. Water-colour; 178 by 115 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

1820. Add Or 4036

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4036
Title:
A Gaddi shepherd and his wife
Scope & Content:
A Gaddi shepherd and his wife carrying baskets on their backs and followed by a large dog. Note: Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1970-72, see M. Archer, ‘Indian paintings from court, town and village’ (London, 1970), no. 39.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

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