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 20 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Westward view from Ghoosla Ghat, Benares - 1831

Plate 3 from the first part of James Prinsep's 'Benares Illustrated'. Prinsep (1799-1840), an antiquary and colonial administrator was assay master at the Benares Mint between 1820-30. The lithographs published in this collection were based on hi... Read More
 19 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Study of women from Ladakh - 1853
By William Carpenter
Pencil and watercolour on paper

William Carpenter was the eldest son of the distinguished portrait painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter and of William Hookham Carpenter, who became Keeper of the Prints and Drawings Department at the British ... Read More
 19 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Lama and praying cylinder - 1862
By William Simpson
Pencil and watercolour on tinted paper

William Simpson was born on 28 October 1823 in Glasgow. Following a seven-year apprenticeship with a specialist lithographic firm, he moved to London in February 1851 and found employment with Day and ... Read More
 17 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Ayodhya seen from the river Ghaghara, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges - 17 May 1785.

Credit: Wellcome Library, London Read More
 16 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Raj Ghaut and the Fort of Allahabad, at the Confluence of the Great Rivers - 1824

This is plate 17 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'. Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions along the rivers, producing drawings ... Read More
 16 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
View from the ruins of the Fort of Currah, on the River Ganges - 1803

Plate 21 from the third set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' Kara to the north-west of Allahabad on the river Ganges was an important political centre in mediaeval India, which declined when Akbar moved th... Read More
 14 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Haridwar, India - May 1878

Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of Haridwar, dated May 1878. Marianne North visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.

Haridwar is a holy city of Hinduism built on the west bank of the Ganga river at the point where the river f... Read More
 14 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
A temple and ghats on the bank of a river near Nasik - 1878

Water-colour drawing by William Robert Houghton of a temple and the ghats on the bank of a river near Nasik, dated c.1878. Inscribed on back in pencil: ? 'Nassick.'

Nasik is one of the holy cities of Hinduism as it is believed to b... Read More
 14 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Village scene near Allahabad - October 1789

Wash drawing of a village scene near Allahabad by Thomas (1749-1840) and William (1769-1837) Daniell in around December 1788 or October 1789. Inscribed on the back in ink is: 'Near Allahabad.'

Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh is one of the religious cen... Read More
 13 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Sculptured Elephant and Pillar, Kailas. Caves of Ellora.
By William Simpson - 1866

William Simpson was born on 28 October 1823 in Glasgow. Following a seven-year apprenticeship with a specialist lithographic firm, he moved to London in February 1851 and found employment with Day and Sons. In... Read More
 11 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting by a British artist; William Carpenter, Elephants belonging to the Rajah of Bhurtpur, India, 1855.

William Carpenter was the eldest son of the distinguished portrait painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter and of William Hookham Carpenter, who became Keeper of the Prints and Drawings Departm... Read More
 11 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Elephant
1931

By Yoshida Hiroshi , (Japanese, 1876 - 1950)
Showa era

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
H: 37.7 W: 24.6 cm
Japan

Copyright © 2012 Smithsonian Institution Read More
 10 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
View of Udayagiridrug - May 1794

Water-colour drawing by Colin MacKenzie of the view of the fort of Udayagiri in Andhra Pradesh, dated May 1794. Inscribed on front in ink: 'N.' 'View of Udgherry Droog. C. McK. May 1794'; on back in ink: 'North View of Udgherri Droog in the Nellore Circars.'

The... Read More
 10 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Falls of the Ghataprabha river near Gokak (Mysore) - 1804

Pencil drawing of the Gokak Falls in Karnataka, by Colin MacKenzie (1754-1821) dated 1804. Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'Sketch of the Falls of the Gatpurba near Gokauk. 1804. 175 feet fall. by Mr Manesty.' From 1792 to 1799 MacKen... Read More
 10 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
View of Nandidrug (Mysore), with the batteries firing during the siege - 1791

Water-colour painting of the hill-fort of Nandidrug in Karnataka made during the siege of 1791 by Colin MacKenzie (1754-1821). Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'No.1. View of Nundidroog with the Batteries firing on'... Read More
 10 Jan 2013 New Books
New Book:
Illustrating India : The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)
By Jennifer Howes
Published by Oxford University Press - 2010

Colin Mackenzie, the first Surveyor General of India, left behind a massive collection of manuscripts and drawings gathered between 1... Read More
 7 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
'The Golden Temple, Amritzur, India. 26 May 1878'
By Marianne North
Oil on paper, 25.8 x 51 cm

Collection: British Library Read More
 6 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Tellicherry, Kerala
By Samuel Scott and George Lambert

Date painted: c.1731
Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 117 cm

A large goods shed stands near the shore and a few houses are visible behind and at the side. To the left is the fort, from a bastion of which flies the Union Jack.

Shipping in the foregro... Read More
 4 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Éléphants du Radja de Travancor, Trivandrum - May 1841

Lithograph of the Raja of Tranvancore's elephants at Trivandrum in Kerala by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of May 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov published in 1848. Prince Saltuikov visited Trivandrum... Read More
 16 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Tower of Silence, Bombay - 1860

Watercolour of the Tower of Silence in Bombay by Colonel Stevenson c.1860. Inscribed on the back in pencil is: 'Tower of Silence, India. Col. Stevenson'.

The Parsi community, followers of the ancient Zoroastrian faith from Persia, are thought to have arrived ... Read More
 10 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Agra, India - 1906
By Albert Goodwin
Oil, pen & ink on canvas, 30 x 39 cm

Collection: Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery Read More