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431. Add Or 565

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Title:
Screen around the cenotaphs in the Taj Mahal, Agra
Scope & Content:
The screen round the cenotaphs in the Taj Mahal, Agra. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820. Inscribed on back in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i majhir i raudah i munauwarah i Mumtaz Mahall wa-hadrat Shahjahan badshah i ghazi andarun- i raudah i mutahharah’ (Picture of the enclosure of the illust...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

432. Add Or 566

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Title:
Entrance gateway to the Taj Mahal, Agra.
Scope & Content:
Entrance gateway to the Taj Mahal, Agra, with the mausoleum in the background. Water-colour; 15.5 by 25.25 ins. Water-mark of 1816. Purchased 27 September 1906.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

433. Add Or 567

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Title:
Taj Mahal, Agra, and the garden
Scope & Content:
The Taj Mahal, Agra, and the entrance gardens with trees, cypresses and flower beds; a gardener with a basket of greenery on his head in the foreground. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820. Water-colour; 22 by 27.25 ins. Narrow Indian ink border between double rules. 1816 water-mark. Purchase...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

434. Add Or 568

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Title:
Shwehmawdaw Pagoda, Pegu, Burma
Scope & Content:
The Shwehmawdaw Pagoda, Pegu, Burma. Probably by an Indian artist in Calcutta, c.1800. Inscribed: ‘Choemadoo, the Great Temple at Pegue. See Syme’s Ava, p.186. Height 361’; on back a note written by Sotheby’s in 1888. Water-colour; 18 by 23 ins. Pink border with Indian ink rules. Purchase...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1800
Extent:
1 Item

435. Add Or 573

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Title:
Two Manipur women cleaning and husking rice.
Scope & Content:
Two Manipur women cleaning and husking rice. Inscribed: ‘Cleaning and husking rice for the day’s meal in Manipur.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

436. Add Or 574

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Title:
Manipur drummer.
Scope & Content:
Manipur drummer. Inscribed: ‘Manipur Musician.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

437. Add Or 575

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Title:
Manipur women washing clothes.
Scope & Content:
Manipur woman washing clothes. Inscribed as above.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

438. Add Or 576

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Title:
Manipur man and women playing pachisi.
Scope & Content:
Manipur man and woman playing ‘pachisi.’ Inscribed: ‘Native game.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

439. Add Or 577

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Title:
Two Manipur warriors with feathered head-dresses and a dog, attacking a tiger with spears.
Scope & Content:
Two Manipur warriors with feathered head-dresses and a dog, attacking a tiger with spears. Inscribed: ‘Attacking tiger.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

440. Add Or 578

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Title:
Three women and two drummers before a shrine to Krishna.
Scope & Content:
Three women and two drummers before a shrine to Krishna. Inscribed: ‘Dancing before a Hindu God.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

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