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

Watercolour

Credit: Wellcome Library, London Read More
 10 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Anatomical study of a man standing with Nepalese and Sanskrit texts showing the Ayurvedic understanding of the human anatomy - 1800

Pen and watercolour

The Anatomical Man And His Sanskrit Context
By Dominik Wujastyk

"A widely-known painting currently in the Wellcome Library depicts an anatomic... Read More
 8 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Bhavani, a fierce aspect of Parvati, is flanked by two attendant figures. The eight-armed goddess holds an associated attribute in each hand: in one she holds the head of the demon Mahishasura, in another a sword. She is the tutelary deity of the Maratha ruler Shivaji, to whom she is said to have... Read More
 8 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Image:
Portret van Shivaji -1675
Golconda

Shivaji (1627-1680) was up to his hips pictured, left, with a sword in his right hand and a spear (?) In the armored left. Sheet 46 in the `Witsen-Album ', with 49 Indian miniatures of princes. Above the portrait is a piece of paper stuck with the na... Read More
 7 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Published Review (1801): As Mr. Porter's celebrated picture of the Storming of Seringapatam will probably be sent to embellish the eastern world, few private mansions being sufficiently capacious to contain it, and the spirit of public patronage too severely palsied by the calamities of the time... Read More
 7 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'The coming-on of the monsoons; - or - the retreat from Seringapatam' - 6 December 1791

By James Gillray
Published by Hannah Humphrey
Hand-coloured etching

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 6 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Portrait of Abdul Khalik Sultan; half-length to front, head slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing a turban with small spray of flowers, within an oval - 1794

Inscriptions:
Inscribed: "Abd ul Khalik Sultaun, Eldest son of Tippo" and "John Smart delin. Madras, 1794"

On the verso (now rem... Read More
 6 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Portrait of Mu'izz Ud-Din Sultan; half-length to front, head half-l, wearing a turban with small spray of flowers, within an oval - 1794

Inscriptions:
Inscribed on the original mount, below the image: "Mooiz Ud Deen Sultaun, Youngest son of Tippo" and "John Smart delin. Madras, 1794"

On th... Read More
 5 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun / The Surrender of Two Sons of Tippoo Sultaun - 1802

Key to two pictures by Henry Singleton; above, the death of Tipu Sultan; below, his two sons being handed over to European officers; for impressions of prints after the pictures.

© Trustees of th... Read More
 5 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Portraits of Islamic saints and devotees with Persian inscriptions - 1796

A typed note pasted to the inside of the album cover reads:
"This album was made up for Tipu, ruler of Mysore from 1783-99, according to the inscription. Dated, Month of Akmadi = 1st month, 1225 = A.D. 1796.
This is ... Read More
 3 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Shipping off Madras - 1780

This painting suggests shipping off the coast of Madras with the harbour and buildings of the city in the distance. Here, the British flag flies prominently from Fort St. George. Sir Edward Hughes took over the East Indies command from Commodore Sir Edward Vernon 172... Read More
 2 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Ghiretta House, Chandernagore - 1800

Aquatint with etching of 'Ghiretta House' at Chandannagar in West Bengal by James Moffat from his original drawing published in Calcutta in 1800. The former French colony of Chandernagore is situated on the bank of the Hoogly river near Calcutta in north-ea... Read More
 2 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'Entree d'une Pagode a Pondichery'. Aquatint by S. Himely after Paris - 1850

Aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872) after Walter Paris (fl.1849-1891) of the entrance gateway (gopura) of a Hindu temple at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, probably published in c. 1850.

Copyright © The British Lib... Read More
 2 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
View of the French Factory, Patna seen from the river - 19 November 1824

Pen and ink drawing by Sir Charles D'Oyly (1781-1845), of a view of the French Factory at Patna City in Bihar, from an Album of 80 drawings of views in Bengal and Bihar taken between January 1823 and May 1825. This image ... Read More
 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Bayaderes de Pondichery - 1850
By Himely, Sigismond (1801-1872)

Travel around the world through the seas of India and China in the corvette La Favorite execute his Majesty during the years 1830, 1831, 1832 under the command of M. Laplace.

Source: National Library of Australia Read More
 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'Marche de Pondichery'.
Aquatint by Himely after Paris - 1850

Aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872) after Walter Paris (fl.1849-1891) of the market at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, possibly published in c. 1850.

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 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
View of the French settlement of Chandernagore (Bengal) - 28 October 1868

Watercolour painting of the French settlement of Chandernagore by Stanley Leighton (1837-1901) dated 28 October 1868. Inscribed on the mount in pencil is: 'French settlement of Chandernagore on the Hooghly. Wed. 28 Oct. 18... Read More
 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
A French officer leaning against a table, a dobashi holding his tricorne hat; a pet dog in the foreground.

Madras, India - ca. 1785
Opaque watercolour on paper

Marks and inscriptions:
French Officer & his Debash

This is a page from the Boileau Album. The album contains 42 Company pain... Read More
 31 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
A Maratha Foot Soldier - 1813

Plate forty-six from the second volume of James Forbes' "Oriental Memoirs". Forbes(1749-1819) made the original drawing of this 'spear-man in the Ragobah's[Raghunath Row] service' in the Mahratta Camp at Cambay where his friend Sir Charles Malet was the English Re... Read More
 30 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Landscape with bare hills; Satara Fort on hilltop, cattle grazing in foreground - 1853

Landscape with Satara Fort on the hilltop completed in water-colour by George Hutchins Bellasis (1807-1862) in 1853. This view shows cattle grazing in the foreground. Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'Satta... Read More
 30 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Poonah - 1809

This aquatint is taken from plate 13 of Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt'. Poona (now Pune, in Maharashtra) was the capital of the Marathas and the seat of the Peshwa, the head of the Maratha confederacy. In ... Read More