The Sas Hazari shrine of Makhdum Shah Jalal Tabrizi. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The ‘Sas Hazari’ shrine of Makhdum Shah Jalal Tabrizi, showing two arcaded buildings with small minarets giving on to a courtyard which contains various ruind structures. Inscribed below: ‘Tomb of Peer wallee a Musselmaun Priest near Malda.’ 365 by 460 mm. Watercolour of a shrine near Malda f...
A grove with a large well near Udhua Nullah. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A grove with a large well. Inscribed below in pencil and ink: ‘An Indara (or large Well. near Ouda Nala.’ 203 by 336 mm. Watercolour of a grove near Udhua Nullah from an album of miscellaneous views of Bengal produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 18...
Lord Hastings' flotilla on the river, with many pinnace budgerows. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The flotilla on the river, with many pinnace budgerows (some with palanquins on their roofs), and beyond a small British station (Union flag) on the cliffs above; lots of people and smoke rising from a fire. Inscribed below: ‘The River Butar.- Ganges in the foreground with part of Lord Moira’s ...
Thomas Fortescue's large single-storeyed vbungalow at Allahabad in extensive grounds. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A large single-storied villa at Allahabad in extensive grounds. Inscribed below: ‘Thomas Fortescue Esqr.’s House at Allahabad.’ 354 by 520 mm. Note: Thomas Fortescue was Judge and Magistrate at Allahabad 1812-15. Watercolour of Thomas Fortescue's house in Allahabad from 'Views by Seeta Ram ...
A vast and solitary cotton tree in a landscape near Moradabad. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A vast and solitary cotton tree in a landscape near Moradabad. Inscribed below: ‘Semool Tree about 57 feet in Circumfrance’ [sic] ‘ near Moradabad.’ In pencil in ‘kaithi: karimajal’? 405 by 512 mm. Note: The Seemal, a large tree with crimson flowers and pods with cotton, ‘Bombax malabaricum.’...
A Vaisnava monastery, with the preparation of bhang in the foreground. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A Vaishnava monastery, with the preparation of ‘bhang’ in the foreground. Inscribed below: ‘Ancient Mutt and Habitation of a Gossain Sirdar with Gossain Tombs at Kalunga Hindoo & in front preparing Bang.’ 405 by 590 mm. Watercolour of a Vaishnava monastary from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Gh...
A religious enclosure with tombs and a white marble arcade. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A religious enclosure with tombs and a white marble arcade of ‘jalis’ converging on a Mughal gateway with a Muslim tomb beside it. Inscribed below: ‘Part of the Madrissa Nobut Kanah and Tombs that under the Semineeanah being that of the Emperor Shaw Allum’s Moulavie’; and in pencil in ‘kaithi: ...
A marble faced platform surmounted by a marble screen enclosing tombs. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A marble faced platform surmounted by a marble screen enclosing tombs, with the mosque of the Madrassah of Ghazi al-Din in the background. Inscribed below: ‘Tomb of’ [gap] ‘near the College.’ 350 by 540 mm. Watercolour of a marble platform surmounted by a marble screen enclosing tombs from 'V...