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11. Add Or 5700

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5700
Title:
A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort. Artist(s): Nidhamal (fl.mid 18th century)
Scope & Content:
A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort Attributed to Nidhamal, Lucknow, 1760-65 206 x 315 mm Published: Losty and Roy 2012, pp.186-187.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1760-1765
Extent:
1 Item

12. Foster 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 978
Title:
The mosque on the corner of Chowringhee Road and the Dhurrumtollah in Calcutta, completed by Prince Ghulam Muhammad in 1842, with the Dhurrumtollah Bazaar in front. A Kali-puja procession is in the foreground, as are various forms of conveyances.. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874), attributed to
Scope & Content:
PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874), attributed to For Prinsep’s water-colours, see PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874). His few known oil paintings seem to be the product of his years of retirement after 1842. This is probably an early example, earlier than such works as his view of Prinsep’s Ghat (‘The R...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840-1845
Extent:
1 Item

13. Foster 1066

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1066
Title:
The Durga Puja being celebrated on the River Hugli, Calcutta, 1875. Artist(s): Palmer, George Gidley (1830-1905)
Scope & Content:
Painting of a night scene, showing Durga Puja festivities on the River Hughli, Calcutta. Painted in 1882, based on a drawing taken in 1875. Signed and dated on lower right corner: 'G.G. Palmer, 1882' Handwritten on verso in pencil: 'Scene on the Hooghly during the Durgha Poojah from a sketch ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1882
Extent:
1 Item

14. Or 4769, f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.7
Title:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
Scope & Content:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

15. Or 4769, f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.8
Title:
Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
Scope & Content:
Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

16. P142

Reference (shelfmark):
P142
Title:
'Ram Leela Festival as performed at Ram Nugur before the Raja of Benares. From James Prinsep, Benares Illustrated, Calcutta, 1831-33; London, 1832-34. Series III, Pl. 4. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:
'Ram Leela Festival as performed at Ram Nugur before the Raja of Benares. From James Prinsep, Benares Illustrated, Calcutta, 1831-33; London, 1832-34. Series III, Pl. 4.. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1834
Extent:
1 Item

17. P973

Reference (shelfmark):
P973
Title:
Procession de la Déesse Kali. (Calcutta, Octobre 1841.). Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of October 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of the procession of the Goddess at Calcutta published in Paris in 1848. In Hindu tradition, Kali 'the black one' is the most terrifying of all the manifestations of Shiv...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

18. P2481

Reference (shelfmark):
P2481
Title:
Scrap book containing 133 miscellaneous prints from Sir Charles D'Oyly's Bihar Lithographic Press.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
Scope & Content:
Jean Mary Macnab's Scrapbook of D'Oyly’s Lithographs Collection of 251 lithographs, mostly the production of the Behar Lithographic Press in Patna set up by Sir Charles D'Oyly, with a small number from the Asiatic Lithographic Press of Thomas Black in Calcutta. They were assembled in a folio a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1828-1831
Extent:
1 Item

19. P2716-2825

Reference (shelfmark):
P2716-2825
Title:
Illustrations from The Illustrated London News 1855-1873. Miscellaneous subjects including architecture, topographical views, portraits of Europeans and Indians, military and historical events, civil engineering, trades and transport.
Scope & Content:
Illustrations from ‘The Illustrated London News’, 1855-1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1873
Extent:
109 items

20. WD555

Reference (shelfmark):
WD555
Title:
The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:
The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Teppel Colum, or Tank-feast. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras, 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.75 by 19.25 ins. Note: The Tamil word ‘Teppam or Teppal’ means ‘raft’, and ‘kulam’ is the 'pool' in which the dei...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 Item