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Subject Imambaras Material Type Prints, Drawings and Paintings Level [40] File

1. Add Or 4756

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4756
Title:
The first quadrangle of the Great Imambara complex. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The first quadrangle of the Great Imambara complex showing the south side of the Rumi Darwaza and the gateway into the main quadrangle, with the party heading out of the former gateway on October 31st. Inscribed below: ‘Gate leading to the Imaumbarah, and East side of the Roma Durauzeh.’ 398 b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 4757

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4757
Title:
The Imambara building itself, with the mosque to the right. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The Imambara building itself, with the mosque to the right. Inscribed below: ‘The Imaumbarah’ 386 by 500 mm. Watercolour of Great Imambara in Lucknow from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Cawnpore to Mohumdy Vol. IV' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 18...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 4758

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4758
Title:
The simple grave of Asaf al-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The simple grave of Asaf al-Daula under a canopy inside the Imambara, with parties of imams reading the Koran, another in a wooden and gilt ‘minbar’, and a ‘Ta’zia’ beyond. The hall is brilliantly lit with coloured girandoles attached to the parapet beneath the ceiling, and by three rows of cha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

4. P977

Reference (shelfmark):
P977
Title:
Principale rue de Lucknow. Capitale du Royaume d’Aoude. [Janvier 1842. Lucknow noblemen on elephants passing the Hussainabad Imambara.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of the main road in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, then capital of the Kingdom of Avadh, with noblemen on elephants passing the Husainabad Imambara by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of January 1842 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD1085

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1085
Title:
Interior of the Hussainabad Imambara Lucknow (U.P.). 4 March 1870. Artist(s): Chevalier, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Scope & Content:
Pencil drawing of the interior of the Hussainabad Imambara in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh by Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902), dated 4 March 1870. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘Huseinabad-Imambara, the gallery and trusses are of wood (brown). N.C. 4.3.70.’ The Husainabad Imambara was built by Nawa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 Item