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261. Add Or 3768

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Add Or 3768
Title:
Wajid 'Ali Shah, King of Oudh. Artist(s): Muhammad Jan (fl.1860s)
Scope & Content:
Wajid ‘Ali Shah, King of Oudh (1847-56). By Muhammad Jan of Lucknow, Calcutta, c.1865. Purchased 20 October 1974. Accompanied by a Persian inscription: ‘shabihah-i mubarik hazrat vajid ‘ali shah bahadur pish kardah baman dukhtar ‘ali bandi va amir husain musavvir banairah muhammad jan musavvi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

262. Add Or 3821

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Add Or 3821
Title:
Raja Bhup Singh of Guler (r.1790-1813, d1826)
Scope & Content:
Raja Bhup Singh of Guler (r.1790-1813, d.1826). Guler, c.1830. Presented by Michael Archer, December 1975. Inscribed on reverse by or at the instance of the dealer Radha Krishan Bharany: ‘Raja Goverdhen Chand enjoying music, lying with his Queen Rani Goverdhana on a cot placed on the cross of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

263. Add Or 3848

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Add Or 3848
Title:
Mir Qamar al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Asaf Jah (1724-48)
Scope & Content:
Mir Qamar al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Asaf Jah (1st Nizam of Hyderabad 1724-48). Purchased June 1976. Inscribed on cover-paper: ‘Nizam al muluck - Soubah of the Decan’; numbered in a different hand: ‘(2)’; in Persian: ‘Nawab Asaf Jah’; cover-paper watermarked with a crowned armorial device over lette...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1745
Extent:
1 Item

264. Add Or 3854

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Add Or 3854
Title:
Jahangir as a youth
Scope & Content:
Jahangir as a youth. Mughal, c.1620-30. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. The picture is first mentioned as no.65 in the 1906 edition of Foster (‘A Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Statues etc. in the India Office’) suggesting that it was acquired sometime between then and the d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1620-1630
Extent:
1 Item

265. Add Or 3906

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3906
Title:
Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore. Artist(s): Bose, Atul (1898-1977)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, c.1920. Inscribed on front in chalk: ‘Atul Bose’. Chalk; 600 by 480 mm. Presented by Mme J.G. Thomas, daughter-in-law of Percy Brown’s second wife, 27 January 1977, along with WD3675-3714, 4137-46.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

266. Add Or 3918

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Add Or 3918
Title:
Full-length portrait of Nawab Shuja' al-Daula of Oudh. Artist(s): Din Dayal (fl.c.1830)
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of Nawab Shuja‘ al-Daula of Oudh (1754-75) wearing a fur-trimmed turban and surcoat and leaning on a sword. He has a blue halo. By Din Dayal, a Lucknow artist, c.1830. Inscribed on back: ‘Newaub Shoojah Ood Dowlah of Oude. Drawn by Deen Dial of Lucknow and given to Major...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

267. Add Or 3919

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Add Or 3919
Title:
George Potter wearing a white suit and seated on a chair. Artist(s): Lachman Singh II (fl.1820s)
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait of George Potter wearing a white suit and seated on a chair, holding a leather-bound book in his left hand and a hookah-snake in his right. By the Calcutta artist Lachman Singh, c.1828. Inscribed below: ‘Babu Lutchmun Singh Painter’; on back: ‘George to his most a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1828
Extent:
1 Item

268. Add Or 4026

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4026
Title:
Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh, seated on a European-style settee holding a sword
Scope & Content:
Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Lucknow (1775-97), seated on a European-style settee holding a sword, the sharpness of which he tests with his thumb. By a Lucknow artist, c.1790. Gouache; 235 by 160 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: The painting is probably a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

269. Add Or 4038

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4038
Title:
Colonel Jacob Petrus (1755-1850) seated on a veranda smoking a hookah
Scope & Content:
Colonel Jacob Petrus (1755-1850) wearing a top hat, blue breeches and a black jacket with an orange collar and cuffs, seated on a veranda smoking a hookah. His sword rests on a footstool. A servant wearing a green flowered jacket stands behind him holding a chowrie. By a Delhi artist, c.1840....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

270. Add Or 4058

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4058
Title:
Portraits of three villagers standing on a hillside
Scope & Content:
Portraits of three villagers standing on a hillside. On the left is Mohan Lal, ‘diwan’ of Nawab Zabita Khan Bhatti. In the centre is Muhammad, a barber, carrying a staff over his shoulder. On the right is a village ‘lambadar’ or official collector of land revenue, called Salotar. Inscribed o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1816-1820
Extent:
1 Item

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