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Subject Festivals Level [40] File

21. Mss Eur B360b (65-94)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B360b (65-94)
Title:
Album containing water-colours illustrating the notebook of Lady Florentia Sale (?1790-1853), during her stay in Agra 1832-33, while her husband Robert Sale was in command of his regiment the 13th Foot, at Agra 1831-35 Also 30 Benares paintings on mic
Scope & Content:
30 gouache paintings on mica illustrating festivals, transport, occupations and boats, by Benares artists, c. 1820-30. Inscibed below as noted by Lady Sale. Various sets of differing quality have been mixed together. 65. ‘Elephant with Howdah.’ 165 by 216 mm. 66. ‘Suttee - or burning a widow ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

22. Or 4769, f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.7
Title:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
Scope & Content:
A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

23. Or 4769, f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.8
Title:
Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
Scope & Content:
Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

24. P964

Reference (shelfmark):
P964
Title:
Fête de la lune à Ceylan, Mai 1841. [Procession with elephants.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of the Festival of the Moon (Esala Perahara) at Kandy in Sri Lanka, by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881), after an original drawing by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of May 1841, published 1848.Kandy is the site of the Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa), the most venerated shrine...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

25. P973

Reference (shelfmark):
P973
Title:
Procession de la Déesse Kali. (Calcutta, Octobre 1841.). Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of October 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of the procession of the Goddess at Calcutta published in Paris in 1848. In Hindu tradition, Kali 'the black one' is the most terrifying of all the manifestations of Shiv...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

26. P2481

Reference (shelfmark):
P2481
Title:
Scrap book containing 133 miscellaneous prints from Sir Charles D'Oyly's Bihar Lithographic Press.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
Scope & Content:
Jean Mary Macnab's Scrapbook of D'Oyly’s Lithographs Collection of 251 lithographs, mostly the production of the Behar Lithographic Press in Patna set up by Sir Charles D'Oyly, with a small number from the Asiatic Lithographic Press of Thomas Black in Calcutta. They were assembled in a folio a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1828-1831
Extent:
1 Item

27. Photo 1295(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1295(78)
Title:
A scene during a festival in Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, showing a group of performers. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1908
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 1297(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1297(52)
Title:
A Mongolian spring festival in Mukden, Manchuria. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910-1920
Extent:
1 item

29. WD11

Reference (shelfmark):
WD11
Title:
Lascars celebrating the Muslim festival of Hijrah on board the Mary Anne. Some dancing on the deck, others looking on. 26 August 1827. Artist(s): James, John Thomas (1786-1828)
Scope & Content:
Lascars celebrating the Muslim festival of Hijrah on board the ‘Mary Anne’. Some dancing on the deck, others looking on. 26 August 1827. Inscribed on mount in ink and also on back: ‘Lascars celebrating the Hegira. Aug. 26th 1827 on board the Mary Anne.’ Water-colour; 5.25 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

30. WD555

Reference (shelfmark):
WD555
Title:
The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:
The Teppakkulam or Raft Festival, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Teppel Colum, or Tank-feast. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras, 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.75 by 19.25 ins. Note: The Tamil word ‘Teppam or Teppal’ means ‘raft’, and ‘kulam’ is the 'pool' in which the dei...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 Item

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