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131. Add Or 673

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Add Or 673
Title:
Religious edifice on raft during a festival, probably at Trichinopoly.
Scope & Content:
Religious edifice on raft during a festival, probably at Trichinopoly. Inscribed: ‘A Tank connected with a Temple, on which are Two Floats carrying a mimmic Temple & Choultry.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

132. Add Or 677

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Add Or 677
Title:
Image of Visnu being carried in procession.
Scope & Content:
Image of Vishnu being carried in procession. Inscribed: ‘Image of Streerangam being carried in Procession to the Temple. A strikingly correct representation. Mark the difference in the appearance and dress of the various parties of the Group. 1. The Brahmin. 2. Bearers. 3. Singers. 4. Dah...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

133. Add Or 678

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Add Or 678
Title:
Muharram Festival.
Scope & Content:
Muharram Festival. Inscribed: ‘A Mohammedan Procession commemorative (as far as I can judge) of some event connected with the Subjugation of the Natives of India who are represented in a ridiculous and degrading light, & bound together with Chains. The Man on the Camel & the [ones] dre...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

134. Add Or 679

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Add Or 679
Title:
Hook-swinging festival (Charak Puja).
Scope & Content:
Hook-swinging Festival ‘(Charak Puja).’ Inscribed: ‘Churnick Poojah or Swinging Festival. Requires to be surounded with a dense crowd of delighted spectators to give anything like an idea of the reality, but still strikingly correct so far as it is given.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

135. Add Or 741

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Add Or 741
Title:
The ceremony of ayudha-puja on the ninth day of the Navaratri festival, with priests garlanding and worshipping the colours of the 35th Regiment Bengal Light Infantry.
Scope & Content:
Hindu priest garlanding the flags of the 35th Bengal Light Infantry at a presentation of colours ceremony, c.1847. Water-colour; 15.25 by 18.75 ins, Note: This regiment became Light Infantry in 1843 and was given the Governor-General's Order for Kilmarnocks for Sepoys in 1847. The flags bear ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1854
Extent:
1 Item

136. Add Or 745

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Add Or 745
Title:
Procession scene to the Chauk Masjid in Murshidabad, headed by a figure on horseback, perhaps Nawab Babur 'Ali
Scope & Content:
Procession scene headed by a figure on horseback, perhaps Nawab Babar ‘Ali (1793-1810) of Murshidabad, proceeding to prayers at the Chauk Masjid. By a Murshidabad artist, c.1800. Water-colour; 15.25 by 27.5 ins. Purchased 14 November 1954. Note: In style this painting closely resembles a set...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

137. Add Or 775

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Add Or 775
Title:
Lighting the funeral pyre.
Scope & Content:
The lighting of a funeral pyre. Inscribed: ‘The burning of a dead body.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1832
Extent:
1 Item

138. Add Or 888

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Add Or 888
Title:
Panorama of a durbar procession of Akbar II, Emperor of Delhi (1806-37)
Scope & Content:
Panorama of a durbar procession of Akbar II, Emperor of Delhi, 1806-37, probably on the occasion of the Id or after Ramadan. The Emperor is followed by his sons, by the British Resident, high officials both Indian and British, as well as by troops. The royal procession includes elephants carry...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1815
Extent:
1 Item

139. Add Or 889

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Add Or 889
Title:
Panoramic scroll of a procession
Scope & Content:
Panoramic scroll of a procession. Central India, c.1850. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Inscribed in Persian characters with identifications of the various components of the procession. Gouache on paper in sections; the central section showing the ruler could originally have been i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

140. Add Or 938

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Add Or 938
Title:
Muharram festival, the ta'ziya in the Imambara.
Scope & Content:
The Muharram festival; the ‘ta‘ziyah’ in the imambara. Inscribed: ‘No.18. The Gift of E.E. Pote Esq. Elizath Collins. This is a Representation of the Mohurrum’;’ and is the Commemoration of the Murder of Hussen and Hosain two Mahomedan Saints: continued for ten days. A Machine is constructe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1795-1800
Extent:
1 Item

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