A showman with a bear. Inscribed: ‘A Showman with a Bear.’ The image is framed by a black border. The image continues outside of the frame. 24.2 by 19.7cm
A washerman taking cloths to be washed on a donkey. Inscribed: ‘A Washerman taking Cloths to be washed’ The image is framed by a black border. The image continues outside of the frame. 24.2 by 19.7cm
Mode of carrying bricks on the backs of donkeys. Inscribed: ‘Mode of carrying Bricks’ The image is framed by a black border. The image continues outside of the frame. 24.2 by 19.7cm
Two wildcats, one devouring a bird, in a landscape of snow-capped peaks.
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Two wildcats, one devouring a bird, in a landscape of snow-capped peaks. Inscribed on front in pencil: (above) ‘No. 6’; and (below, in nagari) ‘plasako viralo’; and in ink: ‘One foot nine inches long & eleven inch. high. Tail nine inch.’ Water-colour and body-colour, heightened with varni...
Durga Das Rathor(1638-c.1710), white-bearded, rides a grey stallion, preceded by an attendant on foot with a chowrie.. Artist(s): Wajid (fl. 1680-1710)
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Durga Das Rathor(1638-c.1710), white-bearded, rides a grey stallion, preceded by an attendant on foot with a chowrie. By Wajid, c.1708. Inscribed on reverse in ‘nagari’: ‘surati rathod durga das ji sri/ wajid.’ [Likeness of Durga Das Rathor. Wajid.] Opaque water-colour and gold; 32.5 by 26cm...
Figure and animal studies. 35 Studies of three standing Nepali men in profile. Pencil; 190 by 280 mm. 36 Studies of Newars, a standing man with three women.. Pencil; 215 by 270 mm and 190 by 280 mm. Note: The male figure reappears in the Lawrence collection study o...
A dhobi with his bullock and bundles of laundry. From an album of Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
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A ‘dhobi’ with his bullock and bundles of laundry. Inscribed below: ‘Our launderer.’ Note: It is interesting to see the high-caste Dhurandhar take exactly the same attitutude to the lower Indian castes as British artists such as George Atkinson earlier in the century.