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181. Add Or 4258

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4258
Title:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house.
Scope & Content:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house. Inscribed on opposite page: ‘The Howder. A Choultry - an Edifice for humane purposes erected for the Traveller’. Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

182. Add Or 4259

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4259
Title:
A loaded Camel, Camel Driver and Family.
Scope & Content:
A camel with a driver, two women and a child on its back. The camel also carries pots, poles and material. Inscirbed on opposite page: ‘A loaded Camel, Camel Driver and Family.’ Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

183. Add Or 4290

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4290
Title:
A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.
Scope & Content:
A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee. The groom and bridegroom are accompanied by torch baring attendants and musicians. Inscribed on the opposite page: ‘A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.’ Water-colour; 105 by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

184. Add Or 4302

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4302
Title:
A composite camel, with a peri dressed in Mughal costume on top, being led by a horned div
Scope & Content:
f.1 A composite camel, with a ‘peri’ dressed in Mughal costume on top, being led by a horned ‘div’ through a flat green landscape, with lightly painted mauve hills. By a Patna artist, c.1810. Water-colour and body-colour, wihtin a black border; paper watermarked ‘Budgen & W...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

185. Add Or 4303

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4303
Title:
A composite elephant with a lady as mahout, with a div with a long spear in front
Scope & Content:
f.2 A composite elephant with a lady as mahout, with a ‘div’ with a long spear in front. By a Patna artist, c.1810. Water-colour and body-colour; 235 by 390 mm. Note: With the same border and landscape as the preceding.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

186. Add Or 4305

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4305
Title:
Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert's racehorse
Scope & Content:
f.4 A grey horse, rather fly-blown, with cropped tail, mane and (apparently!) ears, facing right, an Indian jockey up in maroon and dark blue colours, against a softly painted landscape and unpainted sky. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in pencil on reverse: ‘Sir Walte...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

187. Add Or 4306

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4306
Title:
A bay horse, facing right
Scope & Content:
f.5 A bay horse, facing right, against the same background as the preceding. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘For James Macnabb from Raleigh Gilbert’. Water-colour and body-colour; 245 by 408 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

188. Add Or 4364

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4364
Title:
A camel. Artist(s): Gangaram Cintamani Tambat (fl.1790s)
Scope & Content:
Drawing of a camel facing right, from the same album as above. By the Maratha artist, Gangaram Cintamani Tambat, c.1790. Inscribed in ink: ‘The Figure of the Common Camel of Hindostan accurately taken from a Living One by Gungaram Chintamun Tombut of the follg. Dimensions vz:’ ‘From the Tip o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

189. Add Or 4388

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4388
Title:
A design for an elephant howdah
Scope & Content:
A design for an elephant howdah. By a Kotah artist, c.1850. Inscribed in nagari: ‘ani praman hodo huvoh’ (‘front view(?) of an howdah’). Water-colour and body-colour; 117 by 186 mm. Purchased 1987. Note: The design seems fanciful, in the excess of its curls and swags and sleigh-like frontal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

190. Add Or 4476

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4476
Title:
Elephant (Standing and Sitting). A Female Elephant 22 years Old belonging to Mr. Paymaster Bourke
Scope & Content:
‘Elephant (Standing and Sitting). A Female Elephant 22 years Old belonging to Mr. Paymaster Bourke this Elephant was considered a very fine one in all her points. The Must Eye of this elephant half an inch in length. Five Toes on each for’ [sic]’ Foot and Four Toes on each hind Foot. Two Tea...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1809-1812
Extent:
1 Item

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