Subject: Animals / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3009
Title:: Grey-headed Lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus).
Scope & Content:: Grey-headed Lapwing ‘(Microsarcops cinereus).’ 5.75 by 4.25ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3010
Title:: Two butterflies (Adelpha serpa and Apartura iris L) on an Allamanda cathartica.
Scope & Content:: Two butterflies (‘Adelpha serpa and Apatura iris’ L) 5.75 by 4.25 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3011
Title:: A moth (Chrysirdia rhipheus) on a Tamarindus indica.
Scope & Content:: A moth ‘(Chrysiridia rhipheus)’ on a ‘Tamarindus indica.’ 5.75 by 4.25 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals. Librarians' seals and inscriptions.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape with trees birds and flowers, and deer grazing; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold, with inscriptions. 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1v
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds and a lion; clouds at top. Mughal. c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.2
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.8
Title:: A bustard standing by water
Scope & Content:: A bustard stands on grassland by water, looking to the right; birds and cloudy sky above. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c 1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 185 by 113 mm. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl.CXX. NOTE: A later version of th...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.9v
Title:: A night-heron with a pink lily
Scope & Content:: A night heron (‘Nycticorax nycticorax nicticorax,’ Linn.) stands with its feet in water, facing left; a pink lily grows on the left. Mughal, c.1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 165 by 102 mm. Reproduced: Brown (1925), pl.LV, fig.2.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.10
Title:: A drake by a pool with a water-lily
Scope & Content:: A drake stands beside a pool, facing right. A pink water-lily (possibly ‘Nelumbo’ Sp.) is on the right and trees are on the horizon. Mughal, c.1635. Gouache with gold; panel of sky added. 163 by 101 mm, including panel at top. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl....
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.23v
Title:: Two butterflies on a stylised cranesbill
Scope & Content:: Two butterflies alight on a pink-flowered plant (stylised cranesbill) growing in grassland. Attributed to Muhammad Khan, Mughal, c.1630-35. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 165 by 92 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

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