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251. Add Or 5176

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5176
Title:
A prince and a female musician on the roof of a waterside pavilion by moonlight
Scope & Content:
A prince and a female musician on the roof of a waterside pavilion by moonlight, with ‘morpunkhis’ waiting on the lake below. By a Murshidabad artist, c.1780. Inscribed in ink on a label stuck down below: ‘ Sudja Allumgur’s Son’; and on the album page: ‘7.’ Opaque water-colour and gold and si...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

252. Add Or 5258

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5258
Title:
The Tambura Player. Artist(s): Haldar, Asit Kumar (1890-1964)
Scope & Content:
The Tambura Player: a girl sitting on a terrace pensively fingering a tambura), c.1920. Inscribed below in Bengali: ‘ki sur baje amar prane ami jani ami-i man-i jane’. Water-colour heightened with gum arabic; 98 by 98 mm. Purchased 1996.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

253. Add Or 5324

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5324
Title:
Sankirtun Chaitanya and followers singing hymns in a procession.. Artist(s): Calcutta Art Studio (fl.1890s)
Scope & Content:
‘Hindu Sacred Pictures. Series A. Number 1. Nabadvipe mahaprabhur sankirtan’ [Bengali] ‘Caitanya sankirtan’ [Hindi]’ Chaitanya-sankirtan.’ [Added caption:] ‘58. Sankirtun Chaitanyia and followers singing hymns in a procession.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

254. Add Or 5340, f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5340, f.6
Title:
A beggar-girl with a drone. From an album of Dhurandhar's water-colours.. Artist(s): Dhurandhar, Mahadev Visvanath (1867-1944)
Scope & Content:
A beggar-girl with a drone. Inscribed below: ‘Beggar.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1899
Extent:
1 Item

255. Add Or 5358

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5358
Title:
A soldier with a musket and two musicians with drum and trumpet.
Scope & Content:
A soldier with a musket and two musicians with drum and trumpet. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Siamese Soldier. Siamese Military Drummer & Trumpeter.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

256. Add Or 5370

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5370
Title:
Siva as Nataraja with Parvati and Narada and Nandikesvara playing instruments.
Scope & Content:
Siva as Nataraja with Parvati and Narada and Nandikesvara playing instruments. Inscribed below: ‘The God Paramaswera or Sababady danced(?) on an occasion after the Goddess Sevacaumy Woman and bring heamaharise(?)…’ Note: no. 2 in the V & A album.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

257. Add Or 5391

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5391
Title:
Siva seated on Kailasa listening to the music of Narada and Tumburu.
Scope & Content:
Siva seated on Kailasa listening to the music of Narada and Tumburu. Inscribed below: ‘Paroomasouarah on the silver hill called Khylasaparoovoodum hearing music from Nurda and Tombaroo. 27.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

258. Add Or 5475, f.25v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5475, f.25v
Title:
'Mimicks imitating Nautch or Dancing Girls.' From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘Mimicks imitating Nautch or Dancing Girls.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

259. Add Or 5475, f.38

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5475, f.38
Title:
The panel of Florentine pietra dura work representing Orpheus charming the wild animals with his music, 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:
The panel of Florentine ‘pietra dura’ work representing Orpheus charming the wild animals with his music, installed at the back of throne in the ‘jharoka.’ 23.5 by 15.5 cm. Note: See Ebba Koch, ‘Shah Jahan and Orpheus’, Graz, 1988.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

260. Add Or 5475, f.70(b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5475, f.70(b)
Title:
Dancing girls with musicians. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
‘Nautch or Dancing Girls.’ Inscribed: ‘nacha-i tava’if.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

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