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Title:: Language-teacher with walking stick. Artist(s): Das, E.C. (c.1846)
Scope & Content:: Language-teacher with walking stick. Inscribed: ‘Moonshee or Teacher. E.C. Doss.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1846
Extent:: 1 Item

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Title:: House-steward holding pen case and papers.. Artist(s): Das, E.C. (c.1846)
Scope & Content:: House-steward holding pen-case and papers. Inscribed: ‘Sircar or Bill Collector. E.C. Doss.’
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1846
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 483
Title:: A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims
Scope & Content:: A scene at a shrine. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Welch (1963), no.84; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 23. A shrine to Siva, flying a red banner from the roof pi...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 484
Title:: A river scene with a nobleman in a morpunkhi, with a shrine and travellers
Scope & Content:: A river scene. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 24. In the middle of the river is a peacock barge in which a wealthy nobleman rides, ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 486
Title:: Golden Temple, Amritsar
Scope & Content:: The Golden Temple, Amritsar (Punjab). By an Amritsar artist, c.1860. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i sri darbar sahib jiv waqi‘ah i shahr i Amritsar -jiv parastish-gah i Sikhan’ (Picture of the Holy Sikh Temple situated in the city of Amritsar; the holy worshipping place of the Sik...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1860
Extent:: 1 Item

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Title:: A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground.. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s)
Scope & Content:: A tandem harnessed to a high-wheeled gig; the grooms standing by, a dog in the foreground. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Shaikh Muhammad Amir musauwir sakin i Karraya’ (Shaikh Muhammad Amir painter, resident of Karraya); on back of original mount: ‘Maggy Lauder’ (perhaps the names of the ho...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1845
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 488
Title:: Calcutta house surrounded by a garden with tank and out-houses. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s)
Scope & Content:: A Calcutta house surrounded by a garden with tank and out-houses. Water-colour; 18 by 26.75 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1845
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 489
Title:: A flea-bitten grey horse with its groom holding a fly whisk and a red and blue horse-cloth.. Artist(s): Muhammad Amir, Shaikh, of Karraya (fl.1830s-40s)
Scope & Content:: A flea-bitten grey horse with its groom holding a fly whisk and a red and blue horse-cloth. Inscribed in Persian characters: --’d Amir musauwir’; on back of original mount: ‘Hermit’ (perhaps the name of the horse). Water-colour; 11.5 by 17.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1845
Extent:: 1 Item

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