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11. Add Or 3129, f.54

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.54
Title:
Two flowering plants with a pair of butterflies alighting
Scope & Content:
Two flowering plants with a pair of large butterflies alighting from above. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c.1635. Gouache; background not coloured. 172 by 103 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

12. Add Or 3129, f.64

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.64
Title:
An exotic pink-flowered plant with two butterflies alighting
Scope & Content:
Two butterflies alight on an exotic plant with pink flowers growing beside water; sky at top. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c.1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured; extended at edges. 176 by 103 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

13. Add Or 3129, f.65v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.65v
Title:
Exotic flowers with insects alighting
Scope & Content:
Insects alight on exotic flowers growing beside two boulders; white clouds at top. Attributed to Muhammad Khan, Mughal, c.1630-35. Gouache; background not coloured. 167 by 106 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

14. Add Or 3933

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3933
Title:
A butterfly
Scope & Content:
A butterfly with blackish-blue, yellow and white wings spotted with black. By a Trichinopoly artist, c.1830-40. Water-colour: 240 by 196 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note: From a large album of drawings depicting butterflies. From the late eighteenth ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 Item

15. Add Or 4980

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4980
Title:
Mulberry leaves with silkworms, a silk cocoon, and a pair of moths. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
Mulberry leaves with silkworms, a silk cocoon, and a pair of moths. Attributable to Sita Ram, c.1820. Water-colour; 275 by 230 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

16. Add Or 4981

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4981
Title:
Two men extracting silkworms from a frame with matting. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
Two men extracting silkworms from a frame with matting. Attributable to Sita Ram, c.1820. Water-colour; 200 by 334 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

17. Add Or 4982

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4982
Title:
Two men sitting outside a hut drawing out the silk from the cocoons and winding it in spindles, by boiling the cocoons in water. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
Two men sitting outside a hut drawing out the silk from the cocoons and winding it in spindles, by boiling the cocoons in water, and with great baskets of cocoons waiting to be processed. By Sita Ram, c.1820. Water-colour; 212 by 350 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

18. Add Or 4986

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4986
Title:
The silkworm of Bengal, as caterpillar, cocoon and moth
Scope & Content:
The silkworm of Bengal, as caterpillar, cocoon and moth, with ‘figs.1-4’ inscribed against the various stages. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘Phalarna Paphia Rox: Bombyx Myletta Fabricius. Tusseh Silk Worm of Bengal, see Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. 7th. About Calcutta, feeds on T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

19. Add Or 4988

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4988
Title:
A stick insect
Scope & Content:
A stick insect. By a Chinese artist from Penang?, c.1820. Inscribed in ink by Lady Hastings: ‘Penang. Phasma gigantissimus from Penang. F.H. May 1822.’ Water-colour; 310 by 215 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

20. Add Or 4989

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4989
Title:
Another stick insect
Scope & Content:
Another stick insect. By a Chinese artist from Penang?, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘From Penang 1820. Phasma gracilis from Penang. Apr. 1820 F.H.’ Water-colour; 215 by 275 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item