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 20 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Procession of Palanysoobramaniasawmy on a car representing a peacock.

Trichinopoly, India

Date: ca.1850

Gouache on mica (mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark)

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 20 Feb 2013 Article/Essay
Article:
Conservation of Indian Mica Paintings
By Mike Wheeler
Senior Paper Conservator, Paper Conservation, V&A

The V&A has a collection of about seven hundred paintings on mica originating from India which include examples from Murshidabad, Patna and Benares in eastern India and from Tric... Read More
 19 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
This painting depicts a clerk - ca. 1850

Trichinopoly, India

Gouache on mica

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 15 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Portrait of Hanumān

Watercolour painting on paper of Hanumān. Hanumān stands on the banks of a body of water. He wears green shorts and has a pink shawl draped over his shoulder and chest. He wears a crown and jewel encrusted armlets. On his chest rests a floral garland and necklaces. He holds... Read More
 15 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Watercolour painting on paper of Mandodari wife of Ravaṇa, seated on a cushioned plinth and looking to her left. She holds a flower in her right hand. She wears jewellery, garlands and lavish textiles. Two columns are shown behind Mandodari and in the far distance as line of trees. The painting i... Read More
 15 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Watercolour painting on paper of Ahalya, the wife of the seer Gautama, seated on a plinth with a back, on a terrace with a building behind her. A covered doorway is also shown. She wears lavish textiles and jewellery and holds a flower in her right hand. In front of the plinth is a vase with flow... Read More
 14 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
A performance in a grove - 18th century AD
Oudh, India

By Mir Kalan Khan

Watercolour and gilt on paper

Reference: Andrew Topsfield, Paintings from Mughal India (2008), 69.

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 14 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Maharajah Tikait Rai, minister of Oudh, d. 1801.

Portrait of man with a halo, wearing fine white robes and seated on a terrace in front of a low wall of arabesque panels.

Watercolour and gilt on paper

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 14 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Procession of Nawab Shuja' ud-Daula at Faizabad - 18th century AD

Artist: Niwasi Lal

Watercolour and gilt on paper

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 14 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
A howdah decorated with the fish of Oudh, lion and antelope - ca.1840
Lucknow, India

This furniture, like much of the furniture designed for the nawabs and kings of Oudh, was strongly influenced by the designs of Robert Home (1752-1834), who worked as a retained court-artist to Ghazi ud-Din ... Read More
 11 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
A physician and nurse attending a sick patient and her servant.

Watercolour

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 11 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Illustration of Dhanvantari, God of Ayurvedic medicine.

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 11 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'Man of the medical caste'

Ayurvedic medicine

Indian Watercolour

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 10 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Physician taking pulse; by a Delhi painter - 1825

Watercolour

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 25 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
View of Mecca showing the Kaaba.
Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774.
Watercolour
Gentil Manuscripts.

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 25 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Muslim festival at a tomb of a saint, Murshidabad, ca. 1795 - ca. 1805
Murshidabad, India
Painting; gouache.

This is one of a group of nine paintings. They depict a durbar (public reception) at the Murshidabad court, and various Hindu and Muslim festivals and religious scenes. A Murshidabad ... Read More
 25 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Muslim festival scene: sacred objects being carried under a domed canopy, Tanjore, ca. 1800

Painting; gouache.

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 24 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Painted in Tiruchirapalli, 1830

Gouache painting on paper, part of an album of seventy paintings of Indian deities. Viṣṇu reclines on the coils of the five-hooded Shesha (also known as Ananta). In his left hand he carries a bow, while his right hand supports his head. From Viṣṇu’s navel sprout... Read More
 24 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Made in Tiruchirapalli, 1820-1830

Ink and wash drawing on European paper of the puja (worship) of Alagiyamanavala in the Tirumamani mandapa on Vaikuntha ekadashi festival. The puja is taking place in a pillared hall opposite a mandapa fashioned like a chariot drawn by two horses. Several priests... Read More
 24 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
'North side of Trichinopoly Fort and Rock different caste people washing in the Cauvery river.' - 1800

Gouache on paper

View of the Rock at Trichinopoly; in the foreground, an elephant is being washed and men and women are bathing, washing their clothes, and performing 'puja' in the Cauvery... Read More
 24 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting; gouache on mica, The procession of Jemboonadasawmy, Trichinopoly, ca.1850

This picture comes from a set of 75 mica paintings in four albums. They depict Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars. They are mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark and appeared at the Gr... Read More