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Subject Buddhist imagery

21. Add Or 5334

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5334
Title:
A sheet drawn on both sides illustrating different types of Buddhist mandalas.. Artist(s): Rajbir Citrakar (fl. 1820-1844)
Scope & Content:
A sheet drawn on both sides illustrating different types of mandalas. The principal one, no. 6, occupies the entire sheet and is signed by the artist Rajbir (though subsequently overwritten). Signed: ‘Rajbeer Chittrakar Nepal.’ ‘No. 6 Mandal No. 6. Dharmachakra mandal copied from a picture...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

22. Add Or 5338(1-17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5338(1-17)
Title:
Buddhist iconography. 17 sheets of various sizes, some from a folded exercise book. mostly consisting of the representation of numerous deities per sheet with inscriptions in Nepali.
Scope & Content:
Buddhist iconography. 17 sheets of various sizes, some from a folded exercise book. mostly consisting of the representation of numerous deities per sheet with inscriptions in Nepali. Pen-and-ink except for 1 (gouache), on Nepalese and European paper; various sizes, mostly 25 by 40 cm.. Highlig...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

23. Add Or 5338(18-28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5338(18-28)
Title:
Representations of Nepalese sculpture and iconography.
Scope & Content:
Representations of Nepalese sculpture and iconography. 11 sheets of various sizes, some connected with the purely iconographic representations in (1), with numerous inscriptions in Nepali. Pen-and-ink, and pen-and-ink and wash; various sizes, mostly 25 by 40 cm. 18 includes a large sculptur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

24. Add Or 5338(29-34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5338(29-34)
Title:
Six studies of Nepalese architecture and Buddhist shrines.
Scope & Content:
Six studies of architecture and Buddhist shrines. 29 The five-storeyed Nyatapola temple standing in its square in Bhatgaon, with figures leaving the temple. Pen-and-ink and pencil; 285 by 310 mm. Inscribed in pencil in Nagari: ‘Bhadgaon Nyatapol.’ Note: This and the ne...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

25. Add Or 5581

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5581
Title:
19th Century painting on cloth from Thailand illustrating the Vessantara Jataka.
Scope & Content:
Watercolour on cloth from Central Thailand, 2nd half of the 19th Century. Along with Add.Or.5582, this painting illustrates scenes from the Vessantara Jakata, set in a typical Thai environment, with palaces, Buddhist temples, forest and a village scene beyond the palace walls. In this painti...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1900
Extent:
1 Item

26. Or 881

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 881
Title:
Kōso shōnin shōzō 高祖上人肖像
Scope & Content:
Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: Ten illustrations of Buddhist saints including Renshō 蓮勝上人 and Hōnen 法然上人.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
[1850-1860]
Extent:
1 volume

27. Or 14179

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14179
Title:
Nine drawings once part of Captain Low's album of Thai paintings, Add.27370.
Scope & Content:
Nine drawings once part of Captain Low's album of Thai paintings, Add.27370.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

28. P1728-1738

Reference (shelfmark):
P1728-1738
Title:
Incomplete set of proofs to the plates in R.C. Temple's The Thirty-seven Nats London, 1906. Artist(s): Temple, Sir Richard Carnac (1859-1931), after
Scope & Content:
Incomplete set of proofs to the plates in R.C. Temple's The Thirty-seven Nats London, 1906.. Artist(s): Temple, Sir Richard Carnac (1859-1931), after
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 Item

29. P1966

Reference (shelfmark):
P1966
Title:
Woodcut of Tibetan 'Wheel of Life' Diagram.
Scope & Content:
Woodcut of Tibetan 'Wheel of Life' Diagram.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1915
Extent:
1 Item

30. P3225(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
P3225(2)
Title:
'Late Mahayana representation of Buddha on his Lotus Throne, with Attendants, from cave No. XXXV at Kanheri, near Bombay.' Copper plate used for printed pictures in Fergusson (1880). Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Scope & Content:
'Late Mahayana representation of Buddha on his Lotus Throne, with Attendants, from cave No. XXXV at Kanheri, near Bombay.' Copper plate used for printed pictures in Fergusson (1880).. Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 Item