Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert and other British officers being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur
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The Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert, and other British officers, being entertained with a nautch by the Raja of Sambalpur (Orissa). They are seated under a tent in a courtyard of the palace. On the left the Raja and his guests, on the right, nautch girls and musicians, in the foregroun...
Ghumar Dance. Artist(s): Shukla, Yagnesh K. (1907-1986)
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‘Ghumar Dance,’ two girls holding hands and swinging round each other By Y.K. Shukla. Gouache. Note: Yagnesh K. Shukla (1907-86) was born in Porbandar in Gujarat, and trained at the Bombay School of Art. He studied in Rome on a scholarship from the Italian government in 1938, particularly mu...
‘Garba Dance’, girls dancing in a circle and crossing sticks. By G.H. Nagarkar. Water-colour. Note: Nagarkar’s painting ‘Meditation’ is in the collections of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. He also executed murals in the Secretariat, New Delhi.
A fair with numerous parties of musicians and dancers, with the tents of visitors of rank
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A fair with numerous parties of musicians and dancers, with the tents of visitors of rank. In the foreground gentlemen have arrived by horse, elephant and palanquin, and are observing the dancers, acrobats and a toy-seller. Inscribed on back in pencil and ink: ‘An Hindoo Fair.’. 458 by 755 mm...
The Nawab of Oudh Asaf al-Daula listening to music in a pavilion
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The Nawab of Oudh Asaf al-daula listening to music in a pavilion. He is seated against cushions smoking a hookah. Musicians, singers and dancers perform on the left and courtiers and attendants are on the right. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Mussulman Notching; in’ ink: ‘A Mussulman Nautch be...
Three gentlemen seated in a pavilion on the banks of a river watching a nautch
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Three gentlemen seated in a pavilion on the banks of a river watching a nautch. Two girls are performing the ‘Kaharwa’ dance accompanied by seven male and two female musicians. Three attendants stand behind the seated gentlemen, one of whom smokes a hookah. By a Lucknow artist, c.1810. Inscr...