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Subject festivals (Hindu) Level [40] File

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. WD556

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. WD3280

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

20. WD3665

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