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1. Add Or 377

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 377
Title:
Spearman or post-runner
Scope & Content:
Spearman or post-runner.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 2551

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2551
Title:
A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder.. Artist(s): Kapur Singh (fl.1866)
Scope & Content:
A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder. By Kapur Singh, an Amritsar artist. 15 October 1866. Inscribed by Augustus Honner on album page: ‘Kupoor Sing of Umritsar 15/10/66’; on mount: ‘A dak Runner or Postman - where there is no ‘mail cart’. The...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 4387

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4387
Title:
A toty, or village messenger, dressed in white and with a staff.
Scope & Content:
A toty, or village messenger, dressed in white and with a staff. Inscribed below in pencil:’ Toty;’ and opposite in ink’: Toty or Viulivadi(?) He is the village headman’s henchman - knows all the ins and outs of each villager’s life and has many privileges and perquisites ...’ Note: Hobson-Job...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD1361

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1361
Title:
A Tappal or post runner, Palamcottah, 30 May 1862. Artist(s): Graham, Maxwell (fl. 1835-1864)
Scope & Content:
A Tappal or post runner, of S. India, 30 May 1862. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘Tappal runner. 30th May 1862. Palamcottah’; also note in pencil on back. Water-colour; 5.5 by 5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD1741

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1741
Title:
The Mahar, or village messenger, leaning on a bamboo staff. March 1872. Artist(s): Kipling, John Lockwood (1837-1911)
Scope & Content:
The ‘Mahar,’ or village messenger, leaning on a bamboo staff. March 1872. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘J.L.K. Khangaum March 1872’; on back in pencil:’ No 32. The 'Mahar'.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 Item

6. X43(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
X43(20)
Title:
Sketch of a Shootr-Suwar, an attendant on an Indian camp. Plate 20 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-1869)
Scope & Content:
Sketch of a Shootr-Suwar, an attendant on an Indian camp. Plate 20 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844.. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 Item

7. X471/4(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
X471/4(27)
Title:
'Peadah'. The footman. Section 41, plate 2, in volume 4 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'Peadah'. The footman. Section 41, plate 2, in volume 4 of Solvyns, B. 'Les Hindous, Description de leurs Moeurs, Coutumes et Ceremonies.' Paris: 1808.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

8. X803/1(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
X803/1(87)
Title:
'An Hircara' [messenger]. Section 2nd No.20 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'An Hircara' [messenger]. Section 2nd No.20 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 Item

9. X803/1(88)

Reference (shelfmark):
X803/1(88)
Title:
'A Peada' [footman]. Section 2nd No.21 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'A Peada' [footman]. Section 2nd No.21 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 Item