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Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Material Type Prints, Drawings and Paintings Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5141

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Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 5408

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Title:
Queen Elizabeth I's funeral procession
Scope & Content:
Original pen and ink drawing of Elizabeth I's funeral procession, 1603. It is attributed to William Camden, Clarenceaux herald: although he may not have been the artist, the hand recording the names of the figures resembles his. It includes the chariot drawn by four horses on which stood Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add Or 3

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Title:
Village life in Kashmir. Artist(s): Mir Kalan Khan (fl.c.1760-80)
Scope & Content:
Village life in Kashmir. By Mir Kalan Khan, Lucknow, c.1760. Purchased 13 April 1954. Inscribed on border in Persian: ‘majlis-i kashmir, ‘amal-i mir kalan’ (A Kashmiri assembly, the work of Mir Kalan). Gouache with a little gold; on an album page with yellow and apricot borders, the outer bo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 8

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Title:
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati riding in a moonlit landscape near Mandu
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Baz Bahadur and Rupmati. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased June 1954. Inscribed on slip of paper pasted to border in Urdu: ‘baz bahadur u rupmati, 36’ (Baz Bahadur and Rupmati, 36). Gouache with gold; on an album page with blue and red borders and gold rules, from the same album as Add.Or.4-7 e...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 29

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Title:
Durga Puja. Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830)
Scope & Content:
Durga Puja. Male dancers and musicians performing before an image of the goddess Durga installed inside a house. On the left a group of three men seated on painted stools, one smoking a hookah. By Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830), a Patna artist, c.1809. Water-colour; 11 by 8.5 ins. Purchased 14 N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1809
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 331

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Title:
Taj Mahal, Agra, with trees on either side.
Scope & Content:
The Taj Mahal, Agra, with trees on either side. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1830. Inscribed on back: ‘The Taj Mahal at Agra. S. View Taj.’ Water-colour; 4.5 by 6.25 ins. Narrow ruled Indian ink border between double black rules. Purchased August 1955.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 340

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Title:
Taj Mahal, Agra, from the river.
Scope & Content:
The Taj Mahal, Agra, from the river showing the mausoleum, mosque and assembly hall. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820-30. Inscribed on original mount: ‘The Taj Mahal by an Indian artist, about 1828. The drawing belonged to the late Colonel James Arden Crommelin R.E. of Darjeeling’ (1801-93);...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 341

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Title:
Mausoleum of Akbar, Sikandra
Scope & Content:
Mausoleum of Akbar, Sikandra. By a Delhi or Agra artist, c.1820-30. Water-colour; 7.5 by 9 ins. Narrow Indian ink border and rule. Presented by Miss Estelle Blyth, 26 November 1942. Note: From the same group of papers as Add.Or.340. This drawing was probably also collected by Colonel Cromm...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 476

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Title:
Portrait of Asaf al-Daula (1775-97), Nawab of Oudh
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Asaf al-Daula (Nawab of Oudh 1775-97) holding a sword seated on a green velvet chair in an archway, a red-patterned carpet on the floor. By a Lucknow artist, c.1780. Gouache; 8.25 by 5.25 ins. Purchased 10 January 1957. Note: This portrait appears to be based on a painting by the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 483

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Title:
A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims
Scope & Content:
A scene at a shrine. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Welch (1963), no.84; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 23. A shrine to Siva, flying a red banner from the roof pi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item