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Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 5700
Title:: A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort. Artist(s): Nidhamal (fl.mid 18th century)
Scope & Content:: A young nobleman enjoying holi with his consort Attributed to Nidhamal, Lucknow, 1760-65 206 x 315 mm Published: Losty and Roy 2012, pp.186-187.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1760-1765
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1031/4
Title:: Dr Rajarshi Ghose Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection belongs to Dr. Rajarshi Ghose (Kolkata, India). It is a private collection with rare books, chapbooks, pamphlets, and periodicals in Urdu, Nepali, Bangla, Sanskrit, Farsi, Hindi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri. Dr. Rajarshi Ghose is an Assistant Professor in History at the Centre for St...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Hindi, Nepali, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1800-1999
Extent:: 42852 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1031/4/1
Title:: Dr. Rajarshi Ghose Collection of Rare Books
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Hindi, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1800-1999
Extent:: 42852 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: Foster 978
Title:: The mosque on the corner of Chowringhee Road and the Dhurrumtollah in Calcutta, completed by Prince Ghulam Muhammad in 1842, with the Dhurrumtollah Bazaar in front. A Kali-puja procession is in the foreground, as are various forms of conveyances.. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874), attributed to
Scope & Content:: PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874), attributed to For Prinsep’s water-colours, see PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874). His few known oil paintings seem to be the product of his years of retirement after 1842. This is probably an early example, earlier than such works as his view of Prinsep’s Ghat (‘The R...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840-1845
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Foster 1066
Title:: The Durga Puja being celebrated on the River Hugli, Calcutta, 1875. Artist(s): Palmer, George Gidley (1830-1905)
Scope & Content:: Painting of a night scene, showing Durga Puja festivities on the River Hughli, Calcutta. Painted in 1882, based on a drawing taken in 1875. Signed and dated on lower right corner: 'G.G. Palmer, 1882' Handwritten on verso in pencil: 'Scene on the Hooghly during the Durgha Poojah from a sketch ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1882
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4769, f.7
Title:: A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
Scope & Content:: A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1780
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 4769, f.8
Title:: Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
Scope & Content:: Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1780
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P142
Title:: 'Ram Leela Festival as performed at Ram Nugur before the Raja of Benares. From James Prinsep, Benares Illustrated, Calcutta, 1831-33; London, 1832-34. Series III, Pl. 4. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:: 'Ram Leela Festival as performed at Ram Nugur before the Raja of Benares. From James Prinsep, Benares Illustrated, Calcutta, 1831-33; London, 1832-34. Series III, Pl. 4.. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1830-1834
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P973
Title:: Procession de la Déesse Kali. (Calcutta, Octobre 1841.). Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:: Lithograph by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of October 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov of the procession of the Goddess at Calcutta published in Paris in 1848. In Hindu tradition, Kali 'the black one' is the most terrifying of all the manifestations of Shiv...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1848
Extent:: 1 Item

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