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521. Add MS 71934(63)

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Title:
Carte-de-visite portrait of Alfredo Piatti. Photographer: Hering, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated carte-de-visite portrait of the Italian cellist Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

522. Add MS 78748(14)

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Title:
Uganda. Sulimani with lion cub. Photographer: Bell, Henry Hesketh Joudou
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot portrait of an African servant holding a lion cub.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 item

523. Add MS 81031 A(83)

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Title:
[Lucian Freud.] Photographer: Stern, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length snapshot portrait of the painter Lucian Freud, probably taken on the same occasion as print 84.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 item

524. Add Or 1

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Title:
Mahadaji Sindhia entertaining a British naval officer and a young British military officer to a nautch
Scope & Content:
Mahadaji Sindhia (ruled 1782-94) entertaining a British naval officer and a young British military officer to a nautch in his house at Delhi. Note: A similar portrait of Sindhia inscribed with Sindhia’s name is in Bharat Kala Bhawan, Benares. See also the portrait by, James Wales, F826. This p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

525. Add Or 2

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Title:
Sir David Ochterlony in Indian dress and smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house in Delhi.
Scope & Content:
A European, probably Sir David Ochterlony (1758-1825), in Indian dress, smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house at Delhi. Note: Although this painting is not inscribed, the central figure strikingly resembles other portraits of Ochterlony, e.g. a water-colour in the Red Fort Museum,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

526. Add Or 21

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Title:
Barbad the minstrel, invisible in a tree, playing music to Khusraw and his courtiers
Scope & Content:
Barbad the minstrel, invisible in a tree, playing music to Khusraw and his courtiers, two of whom offer cups of wine. The miniature is numbered '14' in the outer margin. 12.5 by 12 cm. (ex Monif Collection, New York). Purchased, July 1953. For other miniatures detached from the same manuscr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 Item

527. Add Or 32

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Title:
Dancing-girl and four musicians
Scope & Content:
Dancing-girl and four musicians. Inscribed on front in English: ‘Same boll’ (cymbal?) ‘with dancing Girl’; in Tamil: ‘taci’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 Item

528. Add Or 33

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Title:
Merchant holding a gold pen-case
Scope & Content:
Merchant holding a gold pen-case. Inscribed in English: ‘This Picture Cast of Bygan’; in Tamil: ‘komati cati patam.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 Item

529. Add Or 34

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Title:
Cook and wife
Scope & Content:
Cook and wife; the man holds a joint of meat and a kettle, his wife a fish and a basket. Inscribed in English: ‘Cook’; in Tamil: ‘Kucinikkaran’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 Item

530. Add Or 35

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Title:
Maratha tailor and wife
Scope & Content:
Maratha tailor and wife; the man holds a measure and his wife a pair of scissors. Inscribed in English: ‘Maratah Taylor’; in Tamil: ‘maratiya tayyalkaran.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 Item

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