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

Reference (shelfmark):: WD556
Title:: A festival scene, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:: A festival scene, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Procession of Gods. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No 35. Madras, 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.75 by 18.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD855
Title:: A shrine to Durga, as consturcted for the Durga Puja festival, with images of the Goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, her two sons Ganesh and Karttikeya, and Lakshmi and Sarasvati. Signed 'J.C.M.'. Artist(s): M, J.C. (fl. 1784-1820)
Scope & Content:: (125) A shrine to Durga, as constructed for the Durga Puja festival, with images of the Goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, her two sons Ganesh and Karttikeya, and Lakshmi and Sarasvati. Inscribed on back in ink: ‘The Image of Doorgah etc. J.C.M. (?)’ Gouache; 16 by 18 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1784-1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD2522
Title:: A Kulu fair. Artist(s): Harcourt, Alfred Frederick Pollock (1836-1910)
Scope & Content:: A Kulu fair. c.1869. Pencil and water-colour; 14 by 20 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3061
Title:: 'The Maharana’s barge at the spring festival of Gangur, Udaipur'. Artist(s): Kilburn, Denys (1899-1973)
Scope & Content:: ‘The Maharana’s barge at the spring festival of Gangur, Udaipur’. 36.5 by 52 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1923-1942
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3280
Title:: Inscribed on reverse: 'The Kôt at Katmandoo during the Dussera'. Artist(s): Oldfield, Henry Ambrose (1822-1871)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Kôt at Katmandoo during the Dussera’. Water-colour; 37.8 by 50 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850-1863
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3665
Title:: Temple festival. Inscribed on reverse: 'Both sides - procession of the God. Nanganeri, Tinnevelly, 1931'. Artist(s): Maher, Anne Teresa Prideaux (b. 1906)
Scope & Content:: Temple festival. Inscribed: ‘A.T.P. Payne 1932’ and on reverse: ‘Both sides - procession of the God. Nanganeri, Tinnevelly, 1931. This is the god’s car’. Water-colour and chalk; 40 by 29.3 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1932
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3772
Title:: Unpublished drawing by D’Oyly for his humorous poem 'Tom Raw the Griffin'. The image of Durga being cast in to the Hooghly at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Scope & Content:: The image of Durga being cast in to the Hooghly at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Water-colour; 16.7 by 23 cm. Note: Illustration to Canto 7, lines 3933-3941
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4035
Title:: Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house in Calcutta during Durga puja. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:: Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house during Durga puja. 23 by 43.5 cm. Note: A study for this composition, clearly not by Prinsep, is at WD4495. The subject matter and treatment is rather unlike Prinsep’s normal style, and it is possible that this i...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1830s-1840s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4374
Title:: Muharram festival procession. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:: Muharram festival procession. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Procession of the Tazeeas during the Moohurram at the P.hatman a Moosulman Burial Ground - Benares’. Water-colour; 25.4 by 17.4 cm. Purchased 1994. Note: Reproduced in ‘Benares illustrated’, lithographed by G. Barnard, '.... the spot in wh...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1831
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4493
Title:: Album of drawings made during the artist's first tour of India.. Artist(s): Massingham, Mike (b.1952)
Scope & Content:: Album of drawings made during Massingham’s first tour of India in 1986. Cloth covered notebook purchased from a stationer in New Delhi. 290 by 230 mm. Note: Massingham’s luggage was stolen three months into this journey, so this notebook replaced the sketchbook he had originally been using. ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 1 Item

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