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871. Add Or 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4027
Title:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival
Scope & Content:
Male dancers with musicians, celebrating the Muharram festival, are calling at a house for alms. A youth dances on a blue hobby-horse (‘lili ghora’), a woman is pouring rice into the cloth of another dancer. By a Lucknow artist, c.1800. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 280 by 254 mm. From th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

872. Add Or 4028

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4028
Title:
A bugle player
Scope & Content:
A bugle player; in the background a hilly landscape. Inscribed on front: ‘A Bugle Player;’ and numbered in pencil: ‘53.’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item

873. Add Or 4028-4029

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4028-4029
Title:
Add.Or.4028-4029 Two drawings from a set depicting musicians. By a Lucknow artist, c.1815-20. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 248 by 197 mm. From the ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4028-4029 Two drawings from a set depicting musicians. By a Lucknow artist, c.1815-20. Gouache; yellow and pink border; 248 by 197 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
2 items

874. Add Or 4029

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4029
Title:
A tambura player
Scope & Content:
A tambura player seated on a green and blue striped durrie against a background of a wall and a distant landscape. Inscribed on front: ‘A man playing on the guitar;’ and numbered in pencil: ‘87’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item

875. Add Or 4030

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4030
Title:
Table-servant (Khitmatgar) with glass and bottle
Scope & Content:
Table-servant (‘Khitmatgar’) with glass and bottle. By a Lucknow artist, c.1830. Water-colour; 178 by 115 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

876. Add Or 4031

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4031
Title:
A British resident of Lucknow with his two elephants
Scope & Content:
A British resident of Lucknow with his two elephants - one a ceremonial elephant with rich housings, the other an elephant for ‘shikar’. He is standing in the howdah of the latter elephant holding a gun; a servant, also with a gun, is seated behind him. In the background a mansion (perhaps the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

877. Add Or 4036

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4036
Title:
A Gaddi shepherd and his wife
Scope & Content:
A Gaddi shepherd and his wife carrying baskets on their backs and followed by a large dog. Note: Exhibited Arts Council, London, 1970-72, see M. Archer, ‘Indian paintings from court, town and village’ (London, 1970), no. 39.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

878. Add Or 4036-4037

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4036-4037
Title:
Add.Or.4036-4037 Two drawings of occupations in the Punjab. By an artist from the Punjab Hills working in the Punjab Plains, c.1850. Gouache; red bord ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.4036-4037 Two drawings of occupations in the Punjab. By an artist from the Punjab Hills working in the Punjab Plains, c.1850. Gouache; red border with black and white rules; 190 by 247 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer, purchased 1978.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1849-1851
Extent:
2 items

879. Add Or 4037

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4037
Title:
A blacksmith hammering a piece of red-hot iron
Scope & Content:
A blacksmith hammering a piece of red-hot iron, his assistant working the bellows of the furnace.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

880. Add Or 4055

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4055
Title:
A woman holding a flower
Scope & Content:
A woman holding a flower. Purchased September 1979. Gouache with gold; border of pink paper with black ink rules. 290 by 166 mm; with border 355 by 233 mm. A lady is standing holding a flower-sprig in her left hand; she wears a yellow ‘choli’ beneath a transparent pink-tinted sari with gold ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1745
Extent:
1 Item