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Reference (shelfmark):: P3130
Title:: 'The Air Man', Madras. Plate 2 of two views of an Indian juggler with accompanying text. Coloured lithograph by J. Gantz, Madras, 1828. Artist(s): Gantz, John (1772-1853)
Scope & Content:: 'The Air Man', Madras. Plate 2 of two views of an Indian juggler with accompanying text. Coloured lithograph by J. Gantz, Madras, 1828. Artist(s): Gantz, John (1772-1853)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P3261
Title:: The Ancient Melody: Phsical Exercises of China (Guyun yiyouhui: Zhonghua jianshen yundong). . Artist(s): Hao Ping (b.1952)
Scope & Content:: Print with red ground, depicting musicians, martial artists and a vase, waste block woodcut printed with oil-based ink. Height 400mm, width 321mm (image). The woodblock is part of the Chinese collection, shelfmark ORB MISC 29/9. Published in von de Burg, Christer, The Art of Contemporary Chines...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1998
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(35)
Title:: Native acrobats. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View showing an acrobat balancing on top of a long pole erected in a courtyard, with a figure at the base playing a drummer. No.1101 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(36)
Title:: Snake charmers. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1123' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two snake charmers performing. Also published in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (8 volumes, London, 1868-75) and the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 210/1(51)
Title:: Snake charmers. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Portrait of two snake charmers, probably photographed in India rather than Sri Lanka.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/49(4772)
Title:: Jugglers, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:: Posed group, with figure in foreground playing pipes. These figures appear to be part of the same group also seen in print 4773, and there described as snake charmers. A very lightly-printed salt print, crudely hand-coloured.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/49(4773)
Title:: Snake charmers, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:: Posed group, taken at the same location as print 4772. A very lightly-printed salt print, crudely hand-coloured.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4964)
Title:: Juggler performing the sword-swallowing trick, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photographer's name on mount. Probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Studio portrait of juggler, with only the hilt of his sword protruding from his mouth.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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