Rare Paintings
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Benares, India
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

Date painted: 1927
Oil on canvas on board, 23 x 32 cm

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 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Ernest Stephen Lumsden was a Scot by descent and adoption, though not by birth, and he made Edinburgh his home town, teaching at Edinburgh College of Art from 1908 until 1912. Long before he began his extensive travels to India and beyond, E.S.Lumsden had established himself as one of the rising ... Read More
 30 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor)
By Thomas Jones Barker

Date painted: c.1863
Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 213.8 cm

There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) ... Read More
 30 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
The Relief of Lucknow, 1857
By Thomas Jones Barker

Date painted: 1859
Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 181.3 cm

The picture represents an incident in the Indian Rebellion or Mutiny of 1857: Lucknow was besieged, but with only a relatively small number of troops, helped by later reinforcements unde... Read More
 27 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo)
By Bhawani Das
Kolkata, c. 1780

The migratory Demoiselle Crane is found over a wide area, from the Black Sea to northeast China. Commonly wintering in north India and Pakistan, it was often mentioned in poetry and folklore. Beautiful women, for example, ... Read More
 27 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Mary, Lady Impey, wife of the Chief Justice Sir Elijah Impey, between 1777 and 1782 commissioned many paintings that formed a part of a great collection of natural history studies at Calcutta. The Impeys shared the keen scholarly curiosity about India which prevailed among the circle of the Gover... Read More
 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting of a prince and attendant with a falcon. The prince, seated cross-legged on the left, strokes the falcon who rests on the arm of the courtier. Both men sit on a carpet. Void background. No text. Painted in opaque watercolour on paper.

Mughal Style
Mughal dynasty
1600 (circa)
Indi... Read More
 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Man and woman with hawk. Single page painting mounted on detached album folio. A side depicts man and woman with hawk sitting on a carpet outside a red tent by a lake, surrounded by attendants. Mountains in background. Trees in background and foreground. Pink and gold border. B side depicts a cal... Read More
 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
New Book:
Birds and Animals in Mughal Miniature Paintings
By Zaheda Khanam
Published by D.K. Printworld - 2009

Summary:
The depiction of flora and fauna has been an intrinsic part of Indian painting traditions. The Mughals in their turn, in their fascinating paintings, used the bird and an... Read More
 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Hawking portrait of emperor Jahangir and a page. Painting mounted onto a detached album folio. Both figures hold birds (identified as falcons in the register) on their right wrists. Composite picture executed by two different hands and different times. Inscription below the figure of Jahangir ide... Read More
 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting. Hawking. A courtier with a falcon on his wrist. On paper.

Mughal Style
Mughal dynasty
1620 (circa)
India

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 23 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Birds by a pond. Single-page unfinished painting. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. A parliament of birds beside a pavilion set against a pond or lake. The birds include pairs of parrots, hoopoes, partridges, pheasants, ducks, a pelican, an eared nightjar and a waterhen.

Mughal Style
18th... Read More
 20 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Watercolour painting on paper of Hayagriva, considered to be the 18th incarnation of Viṣṇu. He is shown with a horse’s head on a golden skinned human body. He wears a pink dhoti with a matching shawl draped over his shoulders. A string of beads hangs around his neck. He has four arms; his upper r... Read More
 13 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Story-telling painting, in gouache of the 'Paithan' type, illustrating a narrative from the Mahabharata. Rejoicings; the trials of Harishchandra and his family end happily.
Vishnu observes the king embracing Krishna, and the queen, Rukmini. Between the pairs are, the somewhat forgotten Vasishth... Read More
 13 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Pavilion with Krishna paintings
Kangra, c. 1800

This formal composition shows the facade of a small palace pavilion, with nine painted scenes of the exploits of the young Krishna. From lower right: Vishnu reclines on the snake Shesha; Brahma bows before Krishna; Krishna suckles to death the d... Read More
 13 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Rukmini sends an old man with a message for Kṛṣṇa while attendants watch.

Gouache painting on paper.
Made by: Hira Lal
Pahari School
Basohli Style
1770 (circa)
Panjab Hills

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 13 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
An illustration from the Bhagavata Purana depicting the battle between Kṛṣṇa and Rukmi. After Kṛṣṇa elopes with Rukmini, her brother Rukmi follows to stop the wedding, and a battle ensues.

Gouache painting on paper
Attributed to: Nikka
Pahari School
Chamba Style
1775-1780 (circa)
Chamba

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 12 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Śiva and Durgā in a palace on mount Kailasa with attendant deities.
Gouache on paper
Rajasthan School
1790-1810 (circa)
India

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 12 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Seated Durgā with standing attendant
Gouache on paper

Rajasthan School
1790-1810 (circa)
India

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 11 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Kannappa, a hunter, who offers his eyes during a test of his devotion, is shown on the verge of gouging out his eye with an arrow in order to replace the damaged eye of the linga. He places his right foot on one of the linga’s eyes so he knows where to place his own eye. At this point, Śiva’s arm... Read More
 11 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Paintings; gouache on mica, Worshippers are shown before an image of Kali trampling on Shiva, and a goat is about to be sacrificed, Patna, ca.1860

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