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41. Photo 1000/49(4785)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/49(4785)
Title:
Non-photographic: Gouache by an Amritsar artist depicting the smoking of tobacco in various forms of pipe - nargila, huqqa, gurguri and pechwan.
Scope & Content:
With descriptive notes attached. The paintings accompanied samples of the narcotics illustrated, and were made for display at an unidentified exhibition. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 226, catalogue ref. 188 (iv).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

42. Photo 1000/43(4522)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/43(4522)
Title:
Non-photographic: Original watercolour of a Gyeiko man and woman at Tonghoo, Burma, 1866, by Henry Strachan Elton, 16th Madras Native Infantry.
Scope & Content:
The painting was displayed at the Paris International Exhibition of 1867. See Patricia Kattenhorn, 'British drawings in the India Office Library' (vol. 3, London 1994), p. 140.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

43. Photo 1000/43(4525)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/43(4525)
Title:
Non-photographic: Original watercolour of a Chumba shepherd boy (Larkha) by John Macdonald, Bengal Army, dated 20 September 1854.
Scope & Content:
See Patricia Kattenhorn, 'British drawings in the India Office Library' (vol. 3, London 1994), p. 209.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

44. Photo 1000/53(5037)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/53(5037)
Title:
Non-photographic: original watercolour, inscribed 'A Suttunee, or woman of the Sut caste', by a Western Indian artist, c. 1850.
Scope & Content:
One of a series of 12 drawings depicting costumes of Western India. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (London, 1972), p. 238, catalogue reference 197 (i).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

45. Photo 1000/53(5038)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/53(5038)
Title:
Non-photographic: original watercolour, inscribed 'A Hindoo woman with pitchers of water', by a Western Indian artist, c. 1850.
Scope & Content:
One of a series of 12 drawings depicting costumes of Western India. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (London, 1972), p. 238, catalogue reference 197 (vi).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

46. Photo 1000/52(4972)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4972)
Title:
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist the process of boiling molasses in water to make sugar.
Scope & Content:
Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (iv).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

47. Photo 1000/52(4896)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4896)
Title:
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing two men ginning cotton.
Scope & Content:
Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (i).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

48. Photo 1000/43(4511)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/43(4511)
Title:
Non-photographic: Original miniature painting of Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jah (6th Nizam of Hyderabad, 1802-29).
Scope & Content:
See Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, 'Indian miniatures in the India Office Library' (London, 1981), p. 237, catalogue number 436(i).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

49. Photo 1000/59(5398)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/59(5398)
Title:
Non-photographic: watercolour of an Indian nobleman wearing jewels, from the International Exhibition of 1872.
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in pencil Exh. 1872 Madras. J.J. Fonceca. Copied from original. Peckham 1872. See Patricia Kattenhorn, 'British drawings in the India Office Library' (vol. III, London, 1994), pp. 143-144.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

50. Photo 1000/59(5431)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/59(5431)
Title:
Non-photographic: watercolour of a Hindu woman illustrating the manner of wearing jewels, painted by Jeru Naidu of Madras and shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Scope & Content:
See Mildred Archer, 'Company Drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 20, catalogue reference 5.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item