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Add Or 5329
- Record Id:
- 032-003264114
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264114
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000233
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5329
- Title:
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Zoomorphic head. Artist(s): Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
- Scope & Content:
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A zoomorphic head, combining suggestions of a sheep’s skull with a bony beak. 1928-30.
By Rabindranath Tagore (.
Pen-and-ink and water-colour, silvered; 182 by 236 mm.
Signed in Bengali: ‘Rabindra’.
Provenance: exhibited in the artist’s exhibition at Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, June 1930; purchased Mrs. Turner, and by family descent. Purchased 1998.
Note: This drawing is from a group bought from the 1930 Birmingham exhibition; the majority of the group is now in the British Museum.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264114
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264114
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Indian Contemporary style
- Start Date:
- 1928
- End Date:
- 1930
- Date Range:
- 1928-1930
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Appointment required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pen-and-ink; watercolour
- Exhibitions:
- Connecting Stories: Our British Asian Heritage, Library of Birmingham, Birmingham, 15 July 2017 - 4 November 2017
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tagore, Rabindranath, Bengali poet and philosopher, 1861-1941,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120999155 - Subjects:
- Animals
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