Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir. Artist(s): Rattray, James (1818-1854)
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Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir, 1840s. Inscribed in Kashmiri script: ‘Umgiri Vaishnumanova’. Water-colour; 28.7 by 41.2 cm. Purchased 1979 from a collection belonging to descendants of his family.
Inscribed on reverse: 'Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847'. Artist(s): Cobbe, Charles Power (b. 1823)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847 CPC’. Water-colour; 24.5 by 34 cm. Purchased 1979 . Note: The 8th Foot was stationed at Poona and Bombay from 1846 to 1848.
Album containing 49 laid down drawings of landscapes in Bundelkhand and one loose portrait. They appear to have been made on a tour, partly down the Dhasan river, between December 1853 and March 1854. Artist(s): Carmichael, Emily (fl. 1854)
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Album containing forty-nine laid down pencil drawings of landscapes in Bundelkhand and one loose portrait. They appear to have been made on a tour, partly down the Dhasan river, between December 1853 and March 1854 although the numbering and dating of the drawings is confusing. Some seem to ha...
Hilly landscape with a shrine above the fort walls looking across the valley to the Kalinjari hills
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Hilly landscape with a shrine above the fort walls looking across the valley to the Kalinjari hills. Inscribed: ‘Near the Suttees looking towards the breach and callingeries’.
Elevation of one side of the interior of the Govind Deva temple, Brindaban
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Elevation of one side of the interior of the Govind Deva temple, Brindaban. 1828. Inscribed: ‘Inside of the Principal Hindoo Temple at Bindrabund, taken from the East Entrance. Feb. 24th 1828’. Pen and ink; 39 by 33.5 cm. Presented by Professor J.P. Brenan, 1980.
The Monkey Temple and Choultry in Papanasam village below the Papanasam waterfall on the Tambraparni river. Artist(s): Cotton, Robert Rolland (1818-1886)
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The Monkey Temple and Choultry in Papanasam village below the Papanasam waterfall on the Tambraparni river, c.1840. Water-colour; 38 by 53.5 cm. Purchased 1981. Note: The drawing is attributed to Robert Cotton as it is identical with another, then in the possession of the Cotton family, which...
