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1. Add Or 5234

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5234
Title:
Two wildcats, one devouring a bird, in a landscape of snow-capped peaks.
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1843-1846
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 5235-5239

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5235-5239
Title:
Panoramic view of the Kathmandu Valley taken from the roof of the Residency, on five sheets of paper.. Artist(s): Rajmansinh Citrakar (fl. 1830-1850)
Scope & Content:
Panoramic view of the Kathmandu Valley taken from the roof of the Residency, on five sheets of paper. By the Nepalese artist Rajaman Singh. Inscribed ‘1’ to ‘67’, over various geographical features and villages, with the corresponding names in English and nagari on the various sheets. Sheet ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1843-1846
Extent:
1 Item

3. Foster 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 577
Title:
Rope bridge over the Alakananda river at Srinagar, Garhwal, UP.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
Scope & Content:
Rope bridge over the Alakananda river at Srinagar, Garhwal, U.P. Painted by Thomas Daniell, 1808. The old town (since washed away by floods from the bursting of the Gohna lake in 1904) occupies the centre of the picture, but is partially hidden by the rock in the foreground. It was once the c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

4. Mss Eur F197/655(a)-(b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F197/655(a)-(b)
Title:
Photographs of mountain scenery and mountaineering in the Himalayas and Karakorams.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 155 loose prints, divided into the following categories: Prints 1-15 Commercial views of mountain scenery, including the Sind Valley, Liddar Valley, Baltoro Glacier, K2. The majority of these appear to date from the 1890s-1900s. Several are stamped on the reverse, 'From A. M. Heat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1890s-1930s
Extent:
Unspecified

5. Or 4769, f.5

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.5
Title:
Siva,seated on a tiger skin with Parvati beside him, inside a cave in the moutain Kailasa. His bull Nandi rests in front of them beside the river.
Scope & Content:
Siva, three-eyed, white and two armed, wearing a yellow dhoti, a necklace of skulls, snakes, and the moon in his hair, a blue spot on his throat, with the Ganges issuing from his topknot, holding a drum in his right hand, his left resting on his knee, his trident upright beside him, seated on a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

6. Or 4769, f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4769, f.6
Title:
Siva and Parvati in their cave with Nandi, he with five visible heads, with Bhagiratha standing before them, in ascetic's garb with a rosary.
Scope & Content:
Siva and Parvati in their cave with Nandi, exactly as before, except that he now shows five visible heads (four with their eyes closed in meditation) and is four armed (noose, trident, quoit and drum), with Bhagiratha standing before them, in ascetic’s garb with a rosary. Inscribed in Persian: ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

7. P915

Reference (shelfmark):
P915
Title:
Raje Gaut, the principal road up to Rotas Ghur, Bahar.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
Scope & Content:
Raje Gaut, the principal road up to Rotas Ghur, Bahar. No. V. RAJE GAUT, THE PRINCIPAL ROAD UP TO ROTAS GHUR, BAHAR. Rotas Ghur is the most considerable hill fort in this part of India; it is naturally of great strength, and the weaker parts have been assisted by very strong works. Within th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1795
Extent:
1 Item

8. P982

Reference (shelfmark):
P982
Title:
Habitation européene à Simla. (Mai 1842.). 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 May 1842 by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of a European house at Shimla in Himachal Pradesh published in Paris in 1848.The hill-station of Shimla, now the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh, became a popular resort wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

9. P984

Reference (shelfmark):
P984
Title:
Temple rustique aux environs de Simla, au Himalaya, près la Cascade appélée Lal-Pani.. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a rustic temple near the Lal-Pani waterfall at Shimla by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov published in Paris in 1848.Prince Saltuikov's voyage of the Himalayas in September 1842 commenced at Shimla. This hill-station, n...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

10. P985

Reference (shelfmark):
P985
Title:
Une vallée du Kanour [versant septentrional de l’Himalaya. Octobre 1842. Inscription trimmed. Himalayan people with a hill-raja’s castle behind.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a valley at Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of October 1842 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1848.Prince Saltuikov started out on his voyage of the Himalayas from the popular hill-station of Shi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

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