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Add Or 5252
- Record Id:
- 040-003279084
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003279064
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x002517
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100146890937.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5252
- Title:
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The sacred pool at Balaju, with a Political Officer approaching on horseback a group of Newars.
- Scope & Content:
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The pool at Balaju, a tank with many images and fountains laid out in the 18th century north of Kathmandu, with a British Political Officer approaching on horseback a group of Newars.
Inscribed in pencil on front: ‘Bala Ji. Flowing Tank. 2 miles north of Khatmandu;’ (on reverse:) ‘Temple. Tank with sacred fish (Nellie Lawrence’s note) 1907.’
Pencil, wash and water-colour, heightened with silver; 256 by 428 mm. within black frames.
Note: The original pencil sketch for this drawing is in the Hodgson collection in the Royal Asiatic Society (Head catalogue, 022-057).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Lawrence Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003279064
040-003279084 - Is part of:
- Add Or 5229-5255 : Add.Or.5229-5255 Twenty-six drawings of the people, monuments and landscape of Nepal. By Nepalese artists, 1843-46; with one…
Add Or 5252 : The sacred pool at Balaju, with a Political Officer approaching on horseback a group of Newars. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003279064[0020]/040-003279084
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 5229-5255
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100146890937.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Nepalese school
- Start Date:
- 1843
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1843-1846
- 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)