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41. Add Or 3149

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3149
Title:
Advaita (Saivite) Brahmin holding a palm-leaf manuscript
Scope & Content:
Advaita (Shaivite) Brahmin holding a palm-leaf manuscript; a house and well in the background. Inscribed: ‘Smartah Brahmin going to Prayers.’ 8.75 by 6.25 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
1 Item

42. Add Or 3960

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3960
Title:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook
Scope & Content:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook. Inscribed on front: ‘Our head servant. A Mussalman.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

43. Add Or 4205

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4205
Title:
A Muslim bookseller, dressed in green, a bag over his shoulder and holding a morccha.
Scope & Content:
A Muslim bookseller, dressed in green, a bag over his shoulder and holding a ‘morccha’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1810
Extent:
1 Item

44. Add Or 4210

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4210
Title:
A clerk with a book, with beside him a servant carrying a parasol.
Scope & Content:
A clerk with a book, with beside him a servant carrying a parasol.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1810
Extent:
1 Item

45. Add Or 4247

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4247
Title:
A bookplate in a landscape: a stone altar with the initials I.B.G.
Scope & Content:
A bookplate in a landscape: a stone altar with the initials ‘I.B.G.’ Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

46. Add Or 4273

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4273
Title:
A Native Accountant with Cajam Books, i.e. palm-leaf manuscripts.
Scope & Content:
A Native Accountant with Cajam Books i.e. palm-leaf manuscripts. Hobson-Jobson distinguishes between ‘Cajan’, the plant which yields ‘dal’, and ‘Cadjan’, or palm leaves. The term is Javanese, introduced by foreigners (the Dutch?) into western and southern India. Inscribed on opposite page: ‘A ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

47. Add Or 5340, f.1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5340, f.1
Title:
Title-page to an album of M.V. Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
Scope & Content:
Title-page: ‘A tribute to/ C.H. Candy Esquire, B.A., L.L.M./ Principal, Rajaram College/ Kolhapore/ from / his most obedient student/ M.V. Dhurandhar.’ Note: The Kolhapur High School was opened in 1867, and renamed the Rajaram High School in honour of the late Maharaja of Kolhapur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1899
Extent:
1 Item

48. Godwin Photo 1(484)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 1(484)
Title:
George MacBeth, 1973, UK poet, novelist, BBC producer. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography George MacBeth looks downwards and to the right whilst leaning against a door displaying part of a poster of an Aubrey Beardsley illustration. Behind him are shelves piled high with books.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1973
Extent:
1 item

49. Godwin Photo 1(609)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 1(609)
Title:
Andrew Motion, 1985, UK poet, critic, biographer, publisher. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Andrew Motion sits on a sofa with his right hand resting against his cheek; he looks directly at the camera. To the left of the sofa there is a table containing a lamp, stuffed bird and tall pile of books.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1985
Extent:
1 item

50. Godwin Photo 1(666)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 1(666)
Title:
Frances Partridge, one of the last of the Bloomsbury Group, London 1978. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Frances Partridge sits in front of a bookcase that runs the length of the room; she sits to the right of a table that has a tall bunch of tulips placed in a jug.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1978
Extent:
1 item

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