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Subject Parsees

1. IO Islamic 3043

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3043
Title:
Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian text
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
143 folios

2. P.P.1931.k, 5(91)

Reference (shelfmark):
P.P.1931.k, 5(91)
Title:
A Parsee servant. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Stereoscopic view, a full-length seated portrait of a young Parsee man, with descriptive text, p. 91. Published in part no. 79, January 1865. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, Lo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 424(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 424(1)
Title:
Nowrajee Fasdoorjee [?] Esq. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length full-face studio portrait of a Parsi gentleman, seated with his right arm resting on a small table on which stand three books, and holding a book in his left hand.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 424(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 424(4)
Title:
[Portrait of a Parsee man playing a sitar.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a Parsee man, seated beside a small table and posed in the act of playing the sitar. The photograph is taken in the same studio setting as print 1 in this collection.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/42(4334)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4334)
Title:
Studio portrait of an Parsee woman and child, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Studio portrait, with woman standing, child seated on European style chair. Print shown at Paris Exhibition of 1867. See Photo 150 (20) for another portrait of this woman, taken during the same sitting but with a different child seated in the chair. This photograph is probably by William Johnson...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/42(4349)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4349)
Title:
Studio portrait of three Parsees and a Parbhu, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Group seated around a small table, on which are placed books and writing implements, emphasising their intellectual interests and attainments. The Parbhu (Prabhu) man is second from the right. For a detailed account of this group, see S.M. Edwardes, The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (3 vol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/42(4350)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4350)
Title:
Studio portrait of a large Parsee family group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Group of 13 men, women and children, posed in front of backdrop. The elderly, bearded man in the front row also appears in prints 4349 and 4358. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/42(4357)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4357)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of Manickjee Antarya, the celebrated Parsee traveller, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Studio portrait, posed against a painted backdrop of a rustic scene. The traveller holds an axe, a leather bag and a (?)water bottle. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/42(4358)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4358)
Title:
Portrait group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Posed group of six figures. The European on the left is identified simply as 'A German', three other figures as 'Parsees', the figure seated on the left as Dr Bhau Dajee, and the figure seated on the right (who also appears in 4349 and 4350), as 'Shenoy' (?). Note: the identifications of Dr Bhau...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/42(4368)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4368)
Title:
Studio portrait of Khan Bahadur Dustorjee Nosherwanjee, Parsee High Priest of the Deccan, at Bombay. Photographer: William George Stretton.
Scope & Content:
Half-length studio portrait, with letterpress title on mount. Photographed at Stretton's 'Byculla Studio'. Another portrait at Photo 447/3 (50).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item