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Subject festivals (Hindu) Digitised Content No Level [40] File

1. Add Or 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 15
Title:
Harihar Kshetra festival at Sonpur. Artist(s): Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830)
Scope & Content:
The Harihar Kshetra festival at Sonepur, near Patna (Bihar). The river is thronged with boats; in the background the tents of the fair and in the foreground people embarking. Inscribed on back: ‘Herriher-Chitter is a place of worship dedicated to Herriher-nat’h-Mahadeva at Sonepoor in the Dist...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1809
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 400

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 400
Title:
Durga puja
Scope & Content:
Durga puja. Inscribed: ‘Devee Pooja. Hindoo.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 403

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 403
Title:
Kali puja
Scope & Content:
Kali puja. Inscribed: ‘Kalee Poojah. Hindoo.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830-1840
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 941
Title:
Dasehra festival, the svarups of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita being carried in procession
Scope & Content:
The Dasehra festival; effigies of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita being carried in procession, accompanied by musicians and bearers of standards and lanterns. Inscribed: ‘No.27 The Gift of E.E. Pote Esq. Elizath Collins’; also’ Religious Procession. Music and Dancing Girls. Men in the character of ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1795-1800
Extent:
1 Item

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. WD855

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

9. WD2522

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

10. WD3061

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