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161. Add Or 4258

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4258
Title:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house.
Scope & Content:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house. Inscribed on opposite page: ‘The Howder. A Choultry - an Edifice for humane purposes erected for the Traveller’. Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

162. Add Or 4259

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4259
Title:
A loaded Camel, Camel Driver and Family.
Scope & Content:
A camel with a driver, two women and a child on its back. The camel also carries pots, poles and material. Inscirbed on opposite page: ‘A loaded Camel, Camel Driver and Family.’ Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

163. Add Or 4290

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4290
Title:
A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.
Scope & Content:
A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee. The groom and bridegroom are accompanied by torch baring attendants and musicians. Inscribed on the opposite page: ‘A Marriage Procession, The Bridegroom on Horseback and the Bride in a Doolee.’ Water-colour; 105 by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

164. Add Or 4302

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4302
Title:
A composite camel, with a peri dressed in Mughal costume on top, being led by a horned div
Scope & Content:
f.1 A composite camel, with a ‘peri’ dressed in Mughal costume on top, being led by a horned ‘div’ through a flat green landscape, with lightly painted mauve hills. By a Patna artist, c.1810. Water-colour and body-colour, wihtin a black border; paper watermarked ‘Budgen & W...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

165. Add Or 4303

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4303
Title:
A composite elephant with a lady as mahout, with a div with a long spear in front
Scope & Content:
f.2 A composite elephant with a lady as mahout, with a ‘div’ with a long spear in front. By a Patna artist, c.1810. Water-colour and body-colour; 235 by 390 mm. Note: With the same border and landscape as the preceding.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

166. Add Or 4305

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4305
Title:
Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert's racehorse
Scope & Content:
f.4 A grey horse, rather fly-blown, with cropped tail, mane and (apparently!) ears, facing right, an Indian jockey up in maroon and dark blue colours, against a softly painted landscape and unpainted sky. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in pencil on reverse: ‘Sir Walte...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

167. Add Or 4306

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4306
Title:
A bay horse, facing right
Scope & Content:
f.5 A bay horse, facing right, against the same background as the preceding. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘For James Macnabb from Raleigh Gilbert’. Water-colour and body-colour; 245 by 408 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

168. Add Or 4364

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4364
Title:
A camel. Artist(s): Gangaram Cintamani Tambat (fl.1790s)
Scope & Content:
Drawing of a camel facing right, from the same album as above. By the Maratha artist, Gangaram Cintamani Tambat, c.1790. Inscribed in ink: ‘The Figure of the Common Camel of Hindostan accurately taken from a Living One by Gungaram Chintamun Tombut of the follg. Dimensions vz:’ ‘From the Tip o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

169. Add Or 4476

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4476
Title:
Elephant (Standing and Sitting). A Female Elephant 22 years Old belonging to Mr. Paymaster Bourke
Scope & Content:
‘Elephant (Standing and Sitting). A Female Elephant 22 years Old belonging to Mr. Paymaster Bourke this Elephant was considered a very fine one in all her points. The Must Eye of this elephant half an inch in length. Five Toes on each for’ [sic]’ Foot and Four Toes on each hind Foot. Two Tea...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1809-1812
Extent:
1 Item

170. Add Or 4477

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4477
Title:
A Male Nyl Ghy caught in the Jungle near Muttra when about four Days Old in July 1809 and in April 1812 sent from Meerut to Calcutta
Scope & Content:
‘A Male Nyl Ghy caught in the Jungle near Muttra when about four Days Old in July 1809 and in April 1812 sent from Meerut to Calcutta to go on board the Marquis Wellesley East Indiaman Captain Le Blanc for His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent.’ Note: The ‘Marquis Wellesley’ under Captain Charles...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1809-1812
Extent:
1 Item

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