A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground.. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s)
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A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Shaikh Muhammad Amir musauwir sakin i Karraya’ (Shaikh Muhammad Amir painter, resident of Karraya); on back of original mount: ‘Maggy Lauder’ (perhaps the names of the ho...
Route de Colombo a Kandy (Ceylan) Mai 1841. [with an elephant carriage etc.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
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Route de Colombo à Kandy (Ceylan) Mai 1841. [An elephant carriage and other travellers.] Lithograph of an elephant carriage and other travellers on the road from Colombo to Kandy in Sri Lanka by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after the original drawing by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of ...
Environs de Calcutta. Octobre 1842. [A road with a rich Indian’s carriage passing a colony of sannyasis.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
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Lithograph of a road in the vicinity of Calcutta by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) published in 1848 after an original drawing by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov dating from October 1842. This print shows the carriage of a rich Indian passing a colony of sanyasis. Sanyasis or sadhus in Hinduism are...
Emperor's carriage - Salo [State carriage Kiai Garuda Kencana of the Susuhunan of Surakarta.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Side view of the European-style carriage, drawen by eight horses, with a military guard posed for the photographer. Caption in square brackets taken from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this photograph is reproduced on p. 123.