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2512. WD4028
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4028
- Title:
- Village with a small tulsi altar and a watercarrier with his bullock. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
- Scope & Content:
- Village with a small ‘tulsi’ altar and a watercarrier with his bullock. 25 by 35.5 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1830s-1840s
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2513. WD4033
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4033
- Title:
- At left an ascetic wearing an elaborate headdress and arm bands with a group of followers, on the banks of the Ganges. In the centre people are clustered round a dying man on a charpoy, on the right is the carcass of a cow. Artist(s): Prinsep, William
- Scope & Content:
- At left an ascetic wearing an elaborate headdress and arm bands with a group of followers, on the banks of the Ganges. In the centre people are clustered round a dying man on a charpoy, on the right is the carcass of a cow surrounded by vultures, crows, crocodiles and an hyena. 23 by 67 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1830s-1840s
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2514. WD4035
- 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
2515. WD4036
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4036
- Title:
- Hari-ka-charan and temple at Hardwar, with pilgrims on the river banks. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
- Scope & Content:
- Hari-ka-charan and temple at Hardwar, with pilgrims on the river banks. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Hurdwar Ghats’. 23 by 67.5 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1830s-1840s
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2516. WD4038
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4038
- Title:
- Malabari men and women engaged in various processes of cotton weaving, apparently in Malta.. Artist(s): Tresham, Henry (1750-1814)
- Scope & Content:
- Men and women engaged in various processes of cotton weaving. Inscribed in a painted trompe l’oeil panel: ‘MALTA - Indians from the Coast of MALABAR. Brought over by Admiral Suffren’.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1789
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2517. WD4039
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4039
- Title:
- A group of Malabari men, women and children sitting and standing outside a building near the sea. Artist(s): Tresham, Henry (1750-1814)
- Scope & Content:
- A group of men, women and children sitting and standing outside a building near the sea. Note: Admiral Pierre Andre de Suffren (1726-88) fought four indecisive naval battles against Admiral Sir Edward Hughes during the Mysore Wars and returned to France after the Treaty of Paris in 1783, arrivi...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1789
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2518. WD4044
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4044
- Title:
- Album of 57 views and animal studies in pen and ink and pencil with a number of prints. The latter include early experiments with lithography, two on paper watermarked 1820 and one 1822. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
- Scope & Content:
- Album (ff.1-58) of views and animal studies in pen and ink and pencil with a number of prints. The latter include early experiments with lithography, two on paper watermarked 1820 and one 1822. D’Oyly did not set up his own Behar Amateur Lithographic Press in Patna until 1828; T. Black’s Asiat...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1820s
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2519. WD4116
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4116
- Title:
- A caparisoned horse, and syce
- Scope & Content:
- A caparisoned horse, and syce. Inscribed: ‘A. embroidery the same as the saddle B. Wild bulls tails C. Silver chain. Sepoys coat to be purple with white spots. Breeches white’. Water-colour; 20.3 by 32.2 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1790-1792
- Extent:
- 1 Item
2520. WD4123
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4123
- Title:
- An avadhuta, an ascetic standing before his hut, his wife and child nearby. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
- Scope & Content:
- An ‘avadhuta’, an ascetic standing before his hut, his wife and child nearby. Inscribed: ‘An Ab’dhoot’. Water-colour; 37.5 by 25.5 cm. Note: See Section 7, no.5 of ‘The Hindoos’, a mirror image of this drawing.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1791-1804
- Extent:
- 1 Item