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141. Add Or 3345

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3345
Title:
Durga on her lion trampling on Mahishasura.
Scope & Content:
Durga on her lion trampling on Mahishasura. 440 by 280 mm Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.42.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

142. Add Or 3346

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Add Or 3346
Title:
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple.
Scope & Content:
The Mahant sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple. The Mahant (high priest of the Siva temple, Tarakesvar) holds a ‘nargila’ pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him stand three women - Elokesi, the young wife of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 Item

143. Add Or 3347

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3347
Title:
The Mahant fans Elokeshi who sits on a chair holding a rose.
Scope & Content:
The Mahant fans Elokesi who sits on a chair holding a rose while the Mahant dressed only in a ‘dhoti’ stands beside her fanning her with a punkah. 458 by 286 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer in London, 1955. Purchased 1974. Note: Following her first visit to the Tarakesvar shrine, Elokesi was pr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 Item

144. Add Or 3348

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3348
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

145. Add Or 3349

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3349
Title:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan. Exhibited South Bank Centre, Kalighat Paintings, Leicester Museum 27 November 1993 - 9 January 1994; Edinburgh 15 January - 20 February 1994; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 26 February - 10 April 1994; Oxford Museum of Modern Art, 16 April -19 June 1994. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

146. Add Or 3350

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3350
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

147. Add Or 3351

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3351
Title:
The musk-rat raja holding court among his subjects, with a tame cat being taunted
Scope & Content:
The musk-rat raja holding court. A musk-rat sits on a throne, holding a hookah, a pennant above him. Below him, another musk-rat, also holding a pennant, rides on a tame cat. Two other musk-rats appear to taunt the cat. Note: Illustration of a proverb perhaps on the lines of ‘the tables turn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

148. Add Or 3352

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3352
Title:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Scope & Content:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

149. Add Or 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3353
Title:
Siva and Parvati on the bull, Nandi.. Artist(s): Nibaran Chandra Ghosh (c.1835-1930)
Scope & Content:
Siva and Parvati on the bull, Nandi. 455 by 265 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

150. Add Or 3354

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3354
Title:
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant turns an oil-press. Artist(s): Nibaran Chandra Ghosh (c.1835-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Mahant turns an oil-press. 455 by 280 mm. Note: During his time in jail, the Mahant was given various tasks including the watering of plants in the jail garden. He is here shown working an oil-press, a warder brandishing a cane beside him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item