Subject: Birds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5426
Title:: Brahma with Sarasvati on a hamsa bird.
Scope & Content:: Brahma with Sarasvati on a hamsa bird. Inscribed below: ‘Bramah four heads with his Lady Sursvady on the Bird Hunsona. 63.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5456
Title:: Krishna playing the flute surrounded by peacock and hamsa birds.
Scope & Content:: Krishna playing the flute surrounded by peacock and hamsa birds. Inscribed below: ‘Kistnah playing fife and the Peacock began to Dance. 93.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5457
Title:: Krishna playing the flute to the birds.
Scope & Content:: Krishna playing the flute to the birds. Inscribed below: ‘Kistnah playing fife and the birds began to sing. 94.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5475, f.39
Title:: Five smaller panels representing birds, plants etc., of Florentine pietra dura work installed at the back of the throne in the jharoka of the Diwan-i 'Am in the Delhi palace. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:: Five smaller panels representing birds, plants etc., from the same place. Each 7 by 5.5 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842-1844
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5475, f.40
Title:: Four smaller panels representing birds, plants etc., of Florentine pietra dura work, as well as Mughal pietra dura work, installed at the back of the throne in the jharoka of the Diwan-i 'Am in the Delhi palace. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:: Four similar panels, together with three others representing the Mughal inlay work on the same site.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842-1844
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5475, f.41
Title:: Three smaller panels representing birds, plants etc., of Florentine pietra dura work, as well as a large panel of Mughal work, installed at the back of the throne in the jharoka of the Diwan-i 'Am in the Delhi palace. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:: Three similar panels, and one larger Mughal panel.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842-1844
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3
Title:: Collections of Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 262 files and 2522 images. NILGIRIS DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (NDC) officially inaugurated by British council Director Mr. Chris Gibson in 2006. This is the only surviving unique collection in this region, and not yet explored by any researchers. 1) Mr. A. Dharmalingam, son o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Not applicable, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1st half of the 20th century
Extent:: 2522 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3/111
Title:: Photo / Negative envelope 102
Scope & Content:: Extent: This file containing 1 envelope and 5 photo negatives.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Not applicable
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 6 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3/111/2
Title:: The Zoo Pelican Bird
Scope & Content:: This photo negative image shows a pelican bird inside the zoo and a men is feeding it with food, a big ground surface with iron rods layed as fencing to protect bird, the man standing with bucket feeds the bird and other man stands in long distance, a pelican bird with long legs and lengthy nose...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 1 TIFF image

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