Search

Subject Arms and Armaments Level [41] Item

81. Photo 1000/10(1139)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1139)
Title:
Spear-heads, etc., contents of cairns and barrows, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of artefacts photographed beside a measuring rule. Plate xliii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

82. Photo 1000/22(2133a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/22(2133a)
Title:
The Great Court of the Fort, Agra. Photographer: Impey, Eugene Clutterbuck
Scope & Content:
The view looks northwards across the court in front of the Diwan-i-Am (the façade of which can be seen at the extreme right) towards the domes of the Moti Masjid in the background. In the centre of the view, in front of the Diwan-i-Am, is the tomb of John Russell Colvin, Lieutenant-Governor of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

83. Photo 1000/31(3181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/31(3181)
Title:
The Great Gun Malik-i-Maidan, Bijapur. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, with an Indian man standing beside the muzzle to indicate scale. India Museum no. 1423. Received from Captain Lyon, 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3181). 532. - There were formerly six gates to the ancient city, the Makkah being o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

84. Photo 1000/34(3522)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3522)
Title:
No. 73. Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A square, open-sided wooden hall with tiered roof. A number of cannons lie in the courtyard in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The white elephant is the same Crawfurd saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold um...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

85. Photo 1000/42(4359)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4359)
Title:
Group of Hara Rajputs. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of five men posed at the base of a tree. Duplicate of plate 68(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated by eighty photographs (London, 1865): 'The Haras are the most important of the twenty-four branches of the Chohan tribe of Rajpoots, and are descended from Manikrae, King o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

86. Photo 1000/42(4363)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4363)
Title:
Group of Purriar Meenas, robber tribe of Rajasthan. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of four men, posed in front of a thatched house, and armed with matchlocks, bows and other weapons. This print appears (in oval format) in vol. VII no. 341 of The People of India (8 vols., London, 1868-74), from which the caption is taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

87. Photo 1000/42(4394)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4394)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Duplicate of print 1107.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

88. Photo 1000/42(4412d)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4412d)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

89. Photo 1000/42(4413a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4413a)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

90. Photo 1000/42(4413b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4413b)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »