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Add Or 5338(35-41)
- Record Id:
- 040-003279164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003279160
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x002567
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5338(35-41)
- Title:
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Figure and animal studies.
- Scope & Content:
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Figure and animal studies.
35 Studies of three standing Nepali men in profile.
Pencil; 190 by 280 mm.
36 Studies of Newars, a standing man with three women..
Pencil; 215 by 270 mm and 190 by 280 mm.
Note: The male figure reappears in the Lawrence collection study of Newars (Add.Or.5232).
37 Profile portrait of an Indian gentleman with an eye-glass.
Water-colour; 168 by 135 mm.
Inscribed: ‘Isserchunder Nitter’ [Mitter?] ‘37 years Reside’[?]’... at Calcutta’ [and in a different but equally bad hand] ‘37 years resints’ [?].
38r Figure and head studies of bearded and turbanned Indians, a youth wearing a nose-ring, and a musician with a tall headdress..
Pencil; 20 by 25 cm.
38v Europeans outside a church and getting into a carriage, watched by a fox.
Pencil and water-colour; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Bengali and Nagari: ‘vilayati; phaks’ (among much else).
39r A European court scene, after an engraving.
Pen-and-ink; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Bengali and Nagari: ‘vilayati;’ and ‘vilayati vasajadi ka kavahari/ gadi dere ka kausala veti ko.’
39v Animal studies (a goat and a shrew?).
Pen-and-ink; 20 by 25 cm.
40r Figure studies of Dhimals and Lepchas.
Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Bengali and Nagari: ‘Dhimal - kanvar - Dhimal log; Lapca - Lapca log.’
40v A Limbu man and his family, a seated Limbu woman, and a horse.
Pen-and-ink and wash; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Nagari and Bengali: ‘Limbu - Limbu......’
41r Figure and animal studies, including a Tibetan monk, a European man on horseback, and a horse.
Pen-and-ink and wash; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Nagari and Bengali: ‘dharma ka bhotiya; ghore; vilayati gho..’
41v Studies of cows, pigs and the like.
Pencil and pen-and-ink; 20 by 25 cm.
Inscribed in Nagari and Bengali: ‘vilayati suvar - vilayatai gau’ etc. Under the pig is inscribed badly ‘M.R.H.M.L. Whiting’s Improved Bucks Pig.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Hodgson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003279160
040-003279164 - Is part of:
- Add Or 5338 : Add.Or.5338 41 drawings of mostly Buddhist interest from Nepal, from the collections of Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-94). Hodgson…
Add Or 5338(35-41) : Figure and animal studies. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003279160[0004]/040-003279164
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 5338
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Nepalese school
- Start Date:
- 1820
- End Date:
- 1843
- Date Range:
- 1820-1843
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pen-and-ink
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Isvaracandra Mitter, fl 1840
- Subjects:
- Animals
Foreigners
Portraits
ethnic and religious groups
figure studies
mammals