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Add Or 939
- Record Id:
- 040-003270387
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003270384
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00031f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100136944283.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 939
- Title:
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Holi festival, a nobleman watching the celebrations
- Scope & Content:
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The Holi festival, an Indian gentleman seated on a painted stool watches the celebrations. Men sing and dance and play on instruments; women squirt coloured water.
Inscribed: ‘No.4. The Gift of E.E. Pote Esqr. Elizath Collins. This is a Hindoo Festival celebrated, among other sports, by throwing a red powder enclosed in globes of Lak which break instantly and cover the party with the Powder - this is immediately returned - and thus by partial and promiscuous peltings - the whole Party are entirely covered with the red Powder. The Powder is also put in Water, and the Assembly attack each other with squirts filled with the red water - by the time the Party break up’, ‘they are so disfigured as scarce to be known’; also’ The Festival of the Hoolee.’
10 by 22.5 ins.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003270384
040-003270387 - Is part of:
- Add Or 937-944 : Add.Or.937-944 8 drawings depicting Hindu and Muslim festivals and ways of life. By Patna artists, c.1795-1800. Inscribed on back…
Add Or 939 : Holi festival, a nobleman watching the celebrations - Hierarchy:
- 032-003270384[0003]/040-003270387
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 937-944
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100136944283.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Bengal style
Eastern India style
Patna style - Start Date:
- 1795
- End Date:
- 1800
- Date Range:
- 1795-1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)