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1. Add Or 3348-3352, Add Or 3842

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Add Or 3348-3352, Add Or 3842
Title:
Add.Or.3348-3352; Add.Or.3842 Six paintings illustrating: (a) four scenes of current Calcutta life (b) two proverbs. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1880. Wat ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3348-3352; Add.Or.3842 Six paintings illustrating: (a) four scenes of current Calcutta life (b) two proverbs. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1880. Water-colour heightened with silver; 455 by 280 mm Acquired by W.G. Archer in London, July 1965. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
6 items

2. Add Or 3350

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3350
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with peacock.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3352

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3352
Title:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Scope & Content:
Hand with a bunch of fresh-water prawns.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3348

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3348
Title:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a courtesan with rose.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3349

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3349
Title:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan.
Scope & Content:
Oval portrait of a dandy with a courtesan. Exhibited South Bank Centre, Kalighat Paintings, Leicester Museum 27 November 1993 - 9 January 1994; Edinburgh 15 January - 20 February 1994; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 26 February - 10 April 1994; Oxford Museum of Modern Art, 16 April -19 June 1994. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3351

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3351
Title:
The musk-rat raja holding court among his subjects, with a tame cat being taunted
Scope & Content:
The musk-rat raja holding court. A musk-rat sits on a throne, holding a hookah, a pennant above him. Below him, another musk-rat, also holding a pennant, rides on a tame cat. Two other musk-rats appear to taunt the cat. Note: Illustration of a proverb perhaps on the lines of ‘the tables turn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

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