Woman bathing. A lady of rank is seated on steps leading to a river; her hair is being dried by an old lady.
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Woman bathing. A lady of rank is seated on steps leading down to a river; her hair is being dried by an old lady, and two other maid-servants stand behind. Another lady is coming out of the water. In the distance elephants and guards are waiting. Water-colour; 12.75 by 8.25 ins.
The bath chambers in the palace at Agra. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The bath chambers in the palace at Agra. Inscribed below: ‘Bath in the Palace at Agra.’ 285 by 400 mm. Watercolour of the bath chambers at Agra palace from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Agra to Barrackpore Vol. X' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 18...
The walls of Gaur, with a tank in which elephants are bathing, and Lord Hastings' encampment in the foreground. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The walls of Gaur, with a tank in which elephants are bathing, and Lord Hastings’ encampment in the foreground. Inscribed below: ‘Walls of the old Fort at Gour and part of Lord Hastings Camp in front.’ 362 by 452 mm. Watercolour of the walls at Gaurfrom 'Views by Seeta Ram from Malda to Gunga...
Women and children in a bathroom in the verandah of a house. From an album of Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
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Women and children in a bathroom in the verandah of a house. Inscribed below: ‘Our bath room.’
Prince watching bathers in a tank with numerous spectators of both sexes
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Miniaturepainting: left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece to the poems of Sa‘di. Prince watching bathers in a tank, with numerous spectators of both sexes. Shiraz style, about c.1575. 13 by 7.5 cm (page 38.5 by 23.5 cm). The miniature is set in a splendid page of early sixteenth-centur...
Dawn and Dusk bathing ritual. Artist(s): Sital Das (fl. 1780-1782), attributed to
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The dawn and dusk bathing ritual. Attributed to Sital Das. Inscribed with 18 lines of Sanskrit descriptions of the ritual. Drawing with water-colour on paper; edges reinforced and extended with grey paper. 346 by 330 mm; page 492 by 380 mm. Four men are standing in water at the side of a ri...
A lady bathing, assisted by two maids. Mughal, c.1610-20. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed in bottom left corner in Persian: ‘riza’ (perhaps an artist attribution, ‘see below)’; on reverse: ‘majlis-i raniyan’ ... (an assembly of women ... ). Gouache with gold; the lands...
Miniaturepainting illustrating the ‘Yusuf u Zulaykha’ of Jami: Yusuf put ashore after bathing in the Nile; behind, a ship full of men, two of them armoured. Some flaking and rubbing: silver blackened. Bukhara style: third quarter sixteenth century. 20 by 11cm (page 37 by 23.5 cm). A couplet ...
Girls bathing at a pool. Artist(s): Mul Chand (fl.c.1760-1780)
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Girls bathing at a pool. By Mul Chand, Faizabad or Lucknow, c.1770-80. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed beneath in Persian: ‘‘amal-i mul chand musavvir’ (the work of the painter Mul Chand). Gouache with gold; plain paper border. 165 by 121 mm; page 213 by 164 mm. A pa...