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1. Add Or 571

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Add Or 571
Title:
The King and Queen of Burma proceeding to the royal garden
Scope & Content:
The King and Queen of Burma under royal umbrellas with their courtiers and ladies in procession proceeding to the royal garden. By a Burmese artist, 1870-85. Inscribed below in Burmese: .................. (To the royal garden). Opaque water-colour; section from a ‘parabaik’: 315 by 520 mm. P...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1885
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 1467

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Add Or 1467
Title:
Shalimar Gardens, Lahore
Scope & Content:
The Shalimar Gardens, 5 miles east of Lahore. Inscribed in Persian characters:’ Shala Bagh.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2127-2128

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Add Or 2127-2128
Title:
Two drawings of the garden of a wealthy Chinese merchant.
Scope & Content:
2 drawings of the garden of a Chinese merchant, bound into a volume together with Add.Or.2084-2126, 2129-2196. By a Canton artist, c.1800-05. Gouache; 16.5 by 21.5 ins. Deposited c.1806. Note: Add.Or.2127-28, which are inscribed Paan Khaquar Gardens, show the garden of a wealthy Chinese merc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 4142

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Add Or 4142
Title:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Artist(s): Das, K.L. (fl. c.1920)
Scope & Content:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Water-colour on paper; 355 by 250 mm. Presented by Mr. G. Eyre and Mr. N. Hobhouse, 1982.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 4143

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Add Or 4143
Title:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Artist(s): Sanyal, Bhabesh C. (b.1904)
Scope & Content:
In an Indian garden. Signed in paint: ‘B.S.’ Water-colour on paper; 365 by 285 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 4144

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Add Or 4144
Title:
View of a garden probably in or near Calcutta. Artist(s): Sanyal, Bhabesh C. (b.1904)
Scope & Content:
In an Indian garden. Signed in paint: ‘B.Sanyal.’ Water-colour on paper; 365 by 260 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 5475, f.78

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Add Or 5475, f.78
Title:
The Jharna or waterfall, the overflow from the Hauz-i Shamsi, near the Qutb Minar. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘The Jhurna or Waterfall at the Kootoob constructed during the Reign of the Emperor Mohummud Shah.’ Inscribed: ‘naqsha-i chharna dar qutb.’ Note: this lies beside the Hauz-i Shamsi, whose water feeds it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 5576

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Add Or 5576
Title:
Page from a dispersed Rasamanjari depicting the heroine Anusayana 2.
Scope & Content:
A page from a ‘Rasamañjari’, showing the second Anuśāyanā heroine, who is sad on account of the hot weather putting an end to her normal trysting place with her lover in a charming grove full of young leaves and birds and peacocks. Her friend advises her to meet her lover in his house instead. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1620-1625
Extent:
1 Item

9. Johnson 7,4

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Johnson 7,4
Title:
Sufi dervishes exercising in a garden
Scope & Content:
Sufi dervishes exercising in a garden. Mughal, c.1650-60. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 49 in Persian inventory note. Drawing with colour and gold; on an album page with gold-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled outer margin. 210 by 106 mm; page 415 by 298 mm. T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1650-1660
Extent:
1 Item

10. Johnson 63,6

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 63,6
Title:
A colonial garden with gardeners at a well
Scope & Content:
Irrigation; in the foreground gardeners at a well, in the background a Palladian house beside a tank and palm trees. Inscribed: ‘The machine (called a Pekota) by which the natives on’ ‘the Coast of Choromandel draw water from rivers or wells to water rice fields or Gardens’;’ in’ German: ‘Art u...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1787
Extent:
1 Item