Rare Paintings
 20 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat. The world supported by an angel standing on a mountain of rubies, which is supported by a many horned white bull standing on a fish in water above sand and air.

Faizabad, India

ca. 1774

Watercolour

Gentil; Manuscripts... Read More
 17 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
One of six drawings of figures from the Mughal emperor's ceremonial procession on the occasion of Id. A covered sedan chair being carried by eight or nine men, wearing white with various coloured sashes and turbans. Three accompanying figures, one with a parasol.

Delhi, India - ca. 1840

Ar... Read More
 17 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
A maulvi holding a rosary and standing on a terrace - 1815

Watercolour of a maulvi from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Gheen to Delhi Vol. VI' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the Comma... Read More
 11 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
View of Chittagong c.1825

Watercolour by Thomas Prinsep (1800-1830), of a view of Chittagong, in Bangladesh, dated c.1825. This image, from an album compiled with his brother William, shows the washing green, where cloths were laid out to dry in the sun, and is inscribed in the original sketch... Read More
 7 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
Temple and pillar at Vijayanagara - 1800

Water-colour from the MacKenzie Collection of a temple and pillar at Vijayanagara, dated December 1800. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Ancient Pagoda at Bisnagar. 1800'; in pencil: 'Decr. 1800.'

Vijayanagara, the City of Victory founded in 1336, was the... Read More
 6 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
Painted scroll, 'pata'. Fifty-four registers illustrating the story of miracle-working Muslims saints, including Gazi and Manik. One of the scenes shows a rich merchant's ocean-going ship under sail. Other registers show a figure riding a tiger and carrying a serpent-staff, who is probably the Mu... Read More
 5 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
The Gazi Scroll
1800 (circa)

Painted scroll, 'pata'. Fifty-four registers illustrating the story of miracle-working Muslims saints, including Gazi and Manik. One of the scenes shows a rich merchant's ocean-going ship under sail. Other registers show a figure riding a tiger and carrying a serp... Read More
 5 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
This energetic and frenzied singing of hymns to Krishna and Radha is still today associated with Chaitanya and the movement that followed him; it became, in effect, devotional street-theatre. Chaitanya (c. 1486-1533) was a remarkable saint and ecstatic who was born in Navadvip, north of present-d... Read More
 3 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
"At Tirupetty (Tirupati), about fifty miles from Madras, there is an old temple much frequented by pilgrims, and very interesting to the student of Indian architecture. Pursuing the path up the hill, we go through three towers curiously carved. The hill is two thousand five hundred feet high, and... Read More
 30 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The lake at Naini Tal - 9 October 1886

Water-colour painting of the lake at Naini Tal in Uttarakhand by Charles J. Cramer-Roberts (1834-1895), 9 October 1886. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Naini Tal. Oct 9/86. C.J.C.R.'

Naini Tal is situated 6,400 feet above sea level in the Kumaon Hills of t... Read More
 29 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Photograph by Samuel Bourne of the Zojji-La Pass, Kashmir, about 1866

From 1863-1870, Bourne made three trips to the Himalayas in Northern India. Many of these topographical photographs appear as a result of this final, six month photographic expedition in 1866, accompanied by Dr. G.R Playfair... Read More
 29 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Praying cylinders at Soonum. Woman filling a container with water, Himalaya - 1865

By William Simpson

Watercolour on paper

Simpson, William (1823-1899). Painter and lithographer. Simpson was apprenticed to a lithographer in Glasgow and in 1851 came to London where he made views of the Gr... Read More
 28 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Mountain scene in the Himalayas by George Landseer (British); pastel and watercolour on paper; India; 1860.

Mountain scene in the Himalayas; pastel and watercolour on paper. Depicts an encampment in a mountain pass. A fort can be seen on a distant peak. People wearing turbans and with horses, ... Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Himalayan Snowfield - 1925

By Cyril Walter Bion
Painter, born at Simla, India. Educated in England he studied Naval architecture at Durham University. He taught at Hong Kong University and in Northern Ireland.

Oil on canvas, 71.5 x 91.8 cm

Collection: National Museums Northern Ireland Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Sunrise among the Pines near Fagoo in the Himalayas - 1878
By Marianne North

Oil on board, 35.1 x 24.9 cm

Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Bheemtal, Kumaon, India - July 30 1878
By Marianne North

Oil on paper, 29.4 x 51 cm

Collection: British Library Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Scene in the Himalayas
By William Daniell

Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm

Collection: Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Flowers of a Dogwood and an Indigo from the Himalayas -1870
By Marianne North
Oil on board, 29.6 x 34.5 cm
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North: The flower huntress

Eschewing marriage – 'a terrible experiment’ – Marianne North travelled the four corners of the world to paint fl... Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Kanchenjunga, Eastern Himalayas - 1946
By Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973)

Oil on paper, 41.5 x 51.5 cm

British photographer Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973) learned the art of photography from his father William Dacia Holmes who opened the Holmes Studio in Peshawar in 1889. Randolph Holm... Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The Ganges below Gangotri - 1867

This chromolithograph is taken from plate 43 of William Simpson's 'India: Ancient and Modern'. Gangotri is situated in the Tehri District of North Uttar Pradesh, near the source of the Ganges, and in this stretch the river winds between rocky walls up to 300 fe... Read More
 25 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Village Bengali des bords du Gange - 1841

Lithograph of a Bengali village on the banks of the Ganges by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of November 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1848.

The Ganges is the principal river of India... Read More