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Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 2771
Title:: A lady with a parrot. Artist(s): Aqil Khan (fl. 1760), style of
Scope & Content:: A lady with a parrot. Style of ‘Aqil Khan, Mughal, c.1760. Formerly Album 69, no.4; purchased from Mirza Yusuf Khan, 11 March 1914, together with Add.Or.2768, 2770-2771. Inscribed on border in Persian: ‘zinat al-nisa dukhtar-i ‘alamgir badshah’ (Zinat al-Nisa, daughter of the emperor ‘Alamgir...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 2837
Title:: Pigeons
Scope & Content:: Pigeons. Inscribed on reverse: ‘A lady amusing herself upon a terrace flying pidgeons. This also may be the figure of a dancing Girl.’ 159 by 106 mm; page 264 by 197 mm. A lady on a terrace beside a pigeon-house with perch.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3004v
Title:: A simurgh
Scope & Content:: A simurgh. Deccan, c.1650. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Drawing with silver and gold; on an album page with green border. Seal of Rashid Khan, ‘Alamgir Padshah Ghazi, with the date 48, probably for the 48th regnal year of Aurangzeb. 123 by 169 mm; page 162 by 240 mm. Reverse: a...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3009
Title:: Grey-headed Lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus).
Scope & Content:: Grey-headed Lapwing ‘(Microsarcops cinereus).’ 5.75 by 4.25ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3117
Title:: Two bulbuls seated on a rose bush
Scope & Content:: Two bulbuls seated on a rose bush silhouetted against a sunset sky. By an artist of the neo-Bengal school. Water-colour; 15 by 6 ins. Presented by Sir Paul Patrick 1938.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals. Librarians' seals and inscriptions.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape with trees birds and flowers, and deer grazing; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold, with inscriptions. 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.1v
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds and a lion; clouds at top. Mughal. c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.2
Title:: Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
Scope & Content:: Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3129, f.8
Title:: A bustard standing by water
Scope & Content:: A bustard stands on grassland by water, looking to the right; birds and cloudy sky above. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c 1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 185 by 113 mm. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl.CXX. NOTE: A later version of th...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1630-1640
Extent:: 1 Item

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