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Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 737
Title:: Ascetics in a wilderness. Artist(s): Dip Chand (fl.c.1764)
Scope & Content:: Ascetics in a wilderness. Inscribed on reverse: ‘W.F. 1764.’ 218 by 130 mm; page 250 by 160 mm. An ascetic with long hair rests at night on a plinth set outside a rocky cave. A dog, a boy and two companions are with him.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1764
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 739
Title:: Panorama showing the main buildings of Lucknow with a procession of Muhammad 'Ali Shah (King of Oudh 1837-42) passing along the road. Unfinished.
Scope & Content:: Panorama showing the main buildings of Lucknow with a procession of Muhammad ‘Ali Shah (King of Oudh 1837-42) passing along the road. The procession consists of cavalry, camels, riders with kettle-drums, infantry with muskets and pennants, gold-stick bearers, the King and the British resident m...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1848
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 887
Title:: Panorama of Delhi.
Scope & Content:: Panorama of Delhi seen from the Ridge (i.e. the north-west) showing the city of Shahjahanabad silhouetted against the sky; in the middle distance the city wall; from right to left, Garstin’s Bastion, the Lahore Gate, the Kabuli Gate, the Shah Bastion and the Kashmir Gate with St. James’s Church ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1840
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 1964
Title:: Street scene probably in Lucknow, with shops and traders; a horseman with retainers is riding by.
Scope & Content:: Street scene probably in Lucknow, with shops and traders; a horseman with retainers is riding by. Water-colour; 12.75 by 18 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1800
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 2516
Title:: Landscape, Hazaribagh (Bihar).
Scope & Content:: Landscape showing the countryside around Hazaribagh (Bihar) with hills, paddy fields, a small Muslim tomb and a lotus pool. Inscribed: ‘A Tank of Lotus’s near Hazareebaug.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 2525
Title:: Landscape with huge banyan tree beside a river.
Scope & Content:: Landscape with huge Banyan tree beside a river. Country boats and villagers bathing in fore-ground. 20 by 24 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 2608
Title:: A great tree on Prince of Wales' Island (Penang)
Scope & Content:: A great tree on Prince of Wales’ Island (Penang). Probably drawn by a Chinese artist, c.1825. Inscribed: ‘Great Tree Prince of Wales’ Island. 32 feet in’ ‘circumference - 120 in height to the first branch.’ Unfinished, pencil; 23 by 18.75 ins. Presented by Robert Skelton, 14 June 1966. Not...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals. Librarians' seals and inscriptions.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape with trees birds and flowers, and deer grazing; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold, with inscriptions. 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1v
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds and a lion; clouds at top. Mughal. c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

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