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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add Or 188-209

1. Add Or 188

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Add Or 188
Title:
Raja Amar Singh (1787-98) of Tanjore
Scope & Content:
Raja Amar Singh of Tanjore (ruled 1787-98); full length portrait facing right, holding a rose in his left hand. Inscribed: ‘The Present Rajah of Tanjore - 1797 - Rajah Hammah Sing Bonisilie.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 188-209

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Add Or 188-209
Title:
Add.Or.188-209 22 paintings portraying various trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, 1797. Gouache; 14 by 9 ins approx. Mostly inscri ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.188-209 22 paintings portraying various trades and castes of South India. By a Tanjore artist, 1797. Gouache; 14 by 9 ins approx. Mostly inscribed on back with titles by an Indian, writing in English; Add.Or.188 dated 1797. Purchased 4 September 1955. Note: Closely related to Add.Or...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797-1797
Extent:
22 items

3. Add Or 189

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Add Or 189
Title:
Vaisnava begging from a women; he holds a hand punkah and a begging bowl.
Scope & Content:
Vaishnava begging from a woman; he holds a hand punkah and a begging bowl Inscribed: ‘A Brahminy Beggar.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 190

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Add Or 190
Title:
A man from the uplands (palaiyakkaran)
Scope & Content:
A man from the uplands (‘palaiyakkaran’); the man holds a spear and two horns; his wife a basket. Inscribed: ‘A Polygar - or Indian Highlander.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 191

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Add Or 191
Title:
Soldier and wife
Scope & Content:
Soldier and wife; the man has a bow, arrows, sword and buckler. Inscribed: ‘An Indian Warrior.’ Note: Coloured version of Add.Or.1953
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 192

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Add Or 192
Title:
Barber and his wife
Scope & Content:
Barber and wife; the man holds a razor and small bow, his wife holds another razor. Inscribed: ‘Ampticara or barber.’ Reproduced as plate 16 in Howes, J. 'Illustrating India: The Early colonial investigations of Colin Mackenzie'. Delhi: OUP, 2010.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 193

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 193
Title:
Tanjore Maratha Brahmin and wife
Scope & Content:
Tanjore Maratha Brahmin and wife.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 194

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Add Or 194
Title:
Blacksmith and wife
Scope & Content:
Blacksmith and wife;the man is holding a vice, the woman a pair of callipers. Inscribed: ‘Ironsmith.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 195

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Add Or 195
Title:
Indian sepoy (36/13th Madras N.I.) and wife
Scope & Content:
Indian sepoy of the 36th Native Infantry and wife; the sepoy carries a musket and wears white shorts, a red jacket, blue cummerbund and a blue bonnet-shaped turban with white tufted cockade. His wife carries a brass bowl and a bundle on her head. Inscribed: ‘A Sepoy of the 36th Battn. N.I.’ N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 196

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 196
Title:
Brass-worker and wife.
Scope & Content:
Brass-worker and wife; the man holds several implements and a brass vessel; his wife carries a brass lampstand. Inscribed: ‘Kettle Smith Cast.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1797
Extent:
1 Item