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471. Add Or 703

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Add Or 703
Title:
Messenger and wife.
Scope & Content:
Messenger and wife; the man carries a letter. Inscribed: ‘A Hircarrah & his Wife.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

472. Add Or 704

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Add Or 704
Title:
Peon and wife.
Scope & Content:
Peon and wife; the man holds a sword and buckler. Inscribed: ‘Gooty Peon & his Wife.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

473. Add Or 705

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Add Or 705
Title:
Beggar, holding a snake-charmer's pipe, with his wife and child.
Scope & Content:
Beggar, holding a snake charmers pipe, with his wife and child; both carry gourds. Inscribed: ‘Opoo Corawar & His Wife of the Beggar Cast.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

474. Add Or 740

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Add Or 740
Title:
Palladian garden-house near Madras.
Scope & Content:
Palladian garden-house near Madras. By a Madras artist, c.1790. Inscribed on mount: ‘House built by Thomas Powney Esq., 2 miles from Fort St George on the Mount Road.’ Water-colour; 6.5 by 13.25 ins. Purchased 10 August 1957. Note: Thomas Powney (1721-82) was a free merchant living in Madra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

475. Add Or 746

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Title:
Portrait of Hajji Khair Allah Khan.. Artist(s): Muhammad 'Azim (fl.1854)
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Portrait of Hajji Khair Allah Khan, ambassador of Saiyid Muhammad Khan, ruler of Herat, to Kabul, kneeling with clasped hands on a rug, dressed in a grey robe and pinkish turban. Inscribed in Pesian characters: ‘Taswir i ‘alijah hajji al-Haramain Hajji Khair Allah Khan ilchi i sarkar i sardar S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 Item

476. Add Or 747

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Add Or 747
Title:
Portrait of Saiyid Mir Hafiz-ji Sahib.. Artist(s): Muhammad 'Azim (fl.1854)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Saiyid Mir Hafiz-ji Sahib, Councillor of the Amir of Afghanistan. Full-length, dressed in green robe and turban and holding a long staff in his left hand. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Taswir i sulalah al-sadat al-‘uzzam Mir Hafiz-ji Sahib ‘amal i Muhammad ‘Azim asamm abkam’ (P...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 Item

477. Add Or 755

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Title:
A pile-carpet loom being worked at Hunsur (Mysore)
Scope & Content:
A pile-carpet loom at Hunsur (Mysore). By a South Indian artist, 1850. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 17.5 by 24.5 ins. Inscribed in Persian: ‘ghalichah buni (bunni) ka pathra’ (Rug weaving loom): in English: ‘Plan and Elevation of a Carpet loom with five men at work. Grazing Farm. Hoonsoor....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 Item

478. Add Or 756

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Add Or 756
Title:
North-east view of the Vighnesvara temple, Tanjore
Scope & Content:
North-east view of the Vighnesvara temple, Tanjore. Inscribed: ‘83. North East View of the Vignaswar Pagoda of the little fort of Tanjour. Constructed by His Excellency Serfojee Maha Rajah. 1st June, 1803.’ Also notes and measurements. 9 by 14.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

479. Add Or 757

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Add Or 757
Title:
South view of the Temple of Avutaiyar Kovil, near Tanjore
Scope & Content:
South view of the temple of Avutaiyar Kovil, near Tanjore. Inscribed: ‘84. No.10. A South View of the Selebrated Pagoda of Auvedayar covil. Mysore Coll. of drawings.’ Also measurements. 16.5 by 22.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

480. Add Or 758

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Add Or 758
Title:
Carved pillars on the Temple of Avutaiyar Kovil, near Tanjore
Scope & Content:
Carved pillars on the temple of Avutaiyar Kovil, near Tanjore. Inscribed: ‘85. Pillars of the Pagoda at Auvedayar covil. Representing Nurshimha. Representing the Dancing of the Kauly. Representing the Dancing of the Eshwer. Representing the Begging of the Eshwer. Mysore Coll. of drawings....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

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