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Add Or 4371-4387

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032-003278264

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Add Or 4371-4387

Title:

Add.Or.4371-4387 24 drawings let into an album depicting sect-marks, religious types and castes. By a Tanjore artist, c.1850. Inscribed on paintings a ...

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Add.Or.4371-4387

24 drawings let into an album depicting sect-marks, religious types and castes.

By a Tanjore artist, c.1850.

Inscribed on paintings and throughout the album (see below).

Water-colour; size of album 26.5 by 21 cm; full-size paintings 24 by 18 cm, small ones 9 by 11.5 cm. The album is covered in green cloth, with ‘Scrap Book’ stamped on the front, and contains the bookplate of the East India and Sports Club.

Purchased 1987.

Note: The album was compiled by James Stuart Fraser Mackenzie (also referred to in his early career as Stewart James Fraser Mackenzie). He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1860, after just over a year at Addiscombe, and spent his entire career in the Military Accounts Department of the Madras Staff Corps. He reached the rank of Lt. Colonel in 1886, and retired in 1891. The paintings were presumably acquired by Mackenzie shortly after his arrival, and mounted and written up during his working life. They are accompanied by a carbon typescript, with photographs of some of the drawings, working up the notes for publication. This typescript is entitled ‘Caste Marks of Madras’, with Col. Mackenzie’s name at the end, and ‘Col. Mackenzie, Lemington, Frensham, Surrey’ written on the front.

The paintings of standing personages are from a good standard set, while the studies of heads are more unusual. All show very clearly details of sect-marks, clothing, jewellery and other ornaments.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

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Add Or 4371 : A page with studies of four heads, of lay Vaishnavas and their wives.
Add Or 4372 : Four individual heads: Above, a Marwari in purple turban and his richly bejewelled wife. Below, a barber in a red turban with a…
Add Or 4373 : Four individual heads, of a Mughal, or high-class Muslim, and washerman, and their wives.
Add Or 4374 : Two individual heads.Inscribed: No. 5 Housekeeper No. 5 his wife.
Add Or 4375 : Four heads on one sheet of Smarta brahmins.. Above, a bearded man wearing a wide-crowned hat, and his bejewelled wife, neither…
Add Or 4376 : Four heads on one sheet. Above, a man with mutton-chop whiskers and a blue fez, and his jewelled wife, both without sect marks. Below,…
Add Or 4377 : A Sri-Vaishnava brahmin of the Tenkalai sect, standing on a green and brown ground, wearing dhoti, a small red shawl, and with…
Add Or 4378 : A Sri-Vaishnava brahmin of the Vatakalai sect, standing and marked as in xiv above, with an uttariya draped round his upper body.
Add Or 4379 : A dasari mendicant, wearing the Tenkalai sect-mark, rudraksa rosaries, and various brass gongs slung about him, including one…
Add Or 4380 : A Tenkalai mendicant, wearing a tall pointed cap, his sectarian mark over his upper body, and with a rosary of very large berries.…
Add Or 4381 : A Tenkalai mendicant wearing turban and coat over his dhoti, beating a double-ended drum, and with a gaily bedecked bull behind him.
Add Or 4382 : A Hindu merchant of the Tenkalai sect, wearing coat and turban, and carrying a square of cloth in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
Add Or 4383 : A Lingayat, wearing coat and turban and a locket containing his emblematic lingam, and Saiva sect marks: ashes smeared across…
Add Or 4384 : A follower of Madhvacharya, wearing dhoti and a green uttariya wound round his upper body, and carrying a pot and a fruit(?).
Add Or 4385 : A Saiva brahmin, wearing short dhoti and uttariya, and marked with three parallel lines of white ash on forehead and upper body,…
Add Or 4386 : A radaree or road-keeper, wearing a loosely wound garment round his upper body and a purple turban.
Add Or 4387 : A toty, or village messenger, dressed in white and with a staff.

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Start Date:

1849

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1851

Date Range:

1849-1851

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