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41. Add Or 2446

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Add Or 2446
Title:
Dancing-girl with four male musicians
Scope & Content:
Dancing-girl with four male musicians.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

42. Add Or 2450

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Add Or 2450
Title:
Dancers of the Mariyamman cult with a woman carrying fire.
Scope & Content:
Dancers of the Mariyamman cult with a woman carrying fire.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

43. Add Or 2451

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Add Or 2451
Title:
Dancers of the Mariyamman cult, a man carrying fire on his head.
Scope & Content:
Dancers of the Mariyamman cult, a man carrying fire on his head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

44. Add Or 2522

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Add Or 2522
Title:
Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert and other British officers being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur
Scope & Content:
The Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert, and other British officers, being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur (Orissa). They are seated under a tent in a courtyard of the palace. On the left the Raja and his guests, on the right, nautch girls and musicians, in the foregroun...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

45. Add Or 2598

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Add Or 2598
Title:
Three dancing-girls with five musicians performing on a terrace, apparently at James Skinner's house
Scope & Content:
Three dancing-girls with five musicians performing on a terrace. Women sit watching on either side and servants stand behind them. In the background part of a pavilion. By a Delhi artist, c.1838. Inscribed: ‘A Nautch at Col. Skinner’s given to me by himself 1838.’ Gouache; 5.25 by 8.25 ins,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1838
Extent:
1 Item

46. Add Or 2659

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2659
Title:
Dancing-girl seated on a sofa.
Scope & Content:
Dancing-girl in a white sari with a red border seated on a western-style sofa on a terrace. By a Lucknow artist, c.1780-90. Inscribed: ‘A Dancing Girl.’ Gouache; 8.5 by 5.75 ins. Heavy Indian ink border. Purchased 15 August 1966. Note: This drawing is almost identical in composition and su...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

47. Add Or 2912

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Add Or 2912
Title:
A nautch
Scope & Content:
A nautch. 205 by 240 mm. A ruler sits smoking a hookah and holding a flower, while two girls dance before him and two male musicians play.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

48. Add Or 2970

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Add Or 2970
Title:
Ghumar Dance. Artist(s): Shukla, Yagnesh K. (1907-1986)
Scope & Content:
‘Ghumar Dance,’ two girls holding hands and swinging round each other By Y.K. Shukla. Gouache. Note: Yagnesh K. Shukla (1907-86) was born in Porbandar in Gujarat, and trained at the Bombay School of Art. He studied in Rome on a scholarship from the Italian government in 1938, particularly mu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1941
Extent:
1 Item

49. Add Or 2983

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Add Or 2983
Title:
Garba Dance. Artist(s): Nagarkar, G.H. (fl. 1925-51)
Scope & Content:
‘Garba Dance’, girls dancing in a circle and crossing sticks. By G.H. Nagarkar. Water-colour. Note: Nagarkar’s painting ‘Meditation’ is in the collections of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. He also executed murals in the Secretariat, New Delhi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1941
Extent:
1 Item

50. Add Or 3228

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3228
Title:
A fair with numerous parties of musicians and dancers, with the tents of visitors of rank
Scope & Content:
A fair with numerous parties of musicians and dancers, with the tents of visitors of rank. In the foreground gentlemen have arrived by horse, elephant and palanquin, and are observing the dancers, acrobats and a toy-seller. Inscribed on back in pencil and ink: ‘An Hindoo Fair.’. 458 by 755 mm...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item