South Asian Art

RAS 01.005. A Brahminy bull, ca. 1806. Oil on canvas: 42 x 57 cm. Presented by Richard Clarke, 7 July…

RAS 01.007-01.008 Jamsetjee Bomanjee (1756-1821) and Nourojee Jamsetjee (1774-1860), Parsi master shipbuilders. Ca. 1830. By an unidentified artist, J. Dorman…

RAS 01.014 Madhu Rao Narayan, the Maratha Peshwa, with Nana Fadnavis and attendants, 1792. Oil on canvas: 228 x 190…

[RAS 010.001] Tomb of Muhammad son of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, Bijapur, 12 December 1823. Inscribed on the front in…

[RAS 010.002] Tomb of Sheikh Latifu’llah Qadiri, Bijapur, 14 January 1825. Inscribed on the front in ink: View of the…

Click to enlarge.  [RAS 010.003] A panorama of Bijapur, 17 January 1825. Inscribed on the front in ink: An original…

[RAS 015.001] March through the Kherigarh Pass, Kumaun, ca. 1814. Inscribed on the front in pencil: The Chereegaty Pass […]….

[RAS 015.003] Gurkha stockade near Bettiah, Bihar, 1814. Inscribed on the reverse in ink: No 16 by Lt J Harris…

[RAS 015.004] View near Amowa, Bihar, 1814 Inscribed on reverse in ink: No 17 Sketch of the country near Amowah…

[RAS 015.005] Gurkha stockade near Bettiah, Bihar. 1814. Inscribed on the reverse in ink: AD 1814 Stockade & Himalah range…

[RAS 015.006] Gurkha stockade near Bettiah, Bihar, 1814. Inscribed on the reverse in ink: ‘Sketch taken on the Bettiah frontier…

[RAS 015.007] The pre-Asokan pillar at Araraj, north Bihar, 1814. Inscribed on the reverse in ink: No 20 Amowah, north…

[RAS 015.012C] View of the fort of Hatras, Rajasthan, 1817. In 1817 Marquess Hastings ordered an attack of this fort…

[RAS 015.013] Fort of Thalner, Khandesh, ca, 1817 Inscribed on the reverse in ink: ‘Sketch of the Fort of Taulnier…

[RAS 015.017] Fort near Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1818 Inscribed on the front in ink: ‘West view of Mootes Dungree near Jeypoor…

[RAS 015.051] Landscape view with Muslim domed tomb, ca. 1819 Watercolour: 13 x 17 cm By George Chinnery. Donated by Major-General…

[RAS 015.052] Landscape with Muslim domed tomb, 1819 Inscribed in ink on the reverse: Geo Chinnery 1819. Watercolour: 12 x…

[RAS 015.065] ‘Mohopah or Hindostanee Palanquine’ Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes, customs, and castes…

[RAS 015.066] ‘A Jewaun or Trooper belonging to Col. Skinner’s Irregular Cavalry’ Part of an album of 36 watercolours and…

[RAS 015.067] ‘An Officer of Col Gardiner’s irregular Cavalry’ Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes,…

[RAS 015.088] ‘A Nepaul Sepoy’ Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes, customs, and castes of…

[RAS 015.099] ‘Kali with worshippers in a hall’ Part of an album of 80 paintings depicting religious subjects. By an…

[RAS 015.100] ‘An image of the god Durga being carried in a procession Part of an album of 80 paintings…

[RAS 015.145] Inscribed: ‘Mohommka Emambeirah’ Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes, customs, and castes of…

[RAS 015.146] Inscribed: Tazeeah Part of an album of 36 watercolours and drawings illustrating costumes, customs, and castes of India,…

[RAS 018.001] ‘The gateway of Akbar’s tomb at Sikandra’ Agra or Delhi, ca. 1815. From the collection of James Baillie…

[RAS 018.009] ‘Copy of pietra dura decoration from a Mughal building’ Agra or Delhi, ca. 1815. From the collection of…

Elevation of the Temple of Jagannath, Puri, Orissa. Work of an unidentified Indian artist, ca. 1820. Inscribed on the front…

‘Palace of Ranee Bheem and Pudmundi in Cheetor’ (Chitor, Udaipur State) Proof engraving after original by Patrick Waugh. From the…

An interior view in Cheetor with the column of victory Engraving after original by Patrick Waugh. From the collection of…

An interior view in Cheetor with the column of victory By Patrick Waugh. From the collection of Colonel James Tod….

Citadel of the hill fortress of Komulmer. Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur State ca. 1820. By Patrick Waugh. Inscribed on front in pencil:…

Jain Temple in the fortress of Komulmer. Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur State, ca. 1820. By Patrick Waugh. From the collection of Colonel…

Jain Temple in the fortress of Komulmer. Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur State, ca. 1820. Watercolour by an unknown British artist from the…

Jain Temple in the fortress of Komulmer. Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur State, ca. 1820. Proof engraving of the original by Patrick Waugh….

Outline of a Temple to Mahadeva at Barolli By Ghasi, ca. 1820. Drawn over two sheet. From the collection of…

Outline of a Temple to Mahadeva at Barolli Titled proof engraving after Ghasi’s original. From the collection of Colonel James…

Remains of an ancient temple at Barolli, Udaipur state. Ca. 1820. From the collection of Colonel James Tod. See Tod’s…

Temples of Gunga Bheou. Gangabheva, Mewar, c. 1820. Inscribed top right: vignette. From the collection of Colonel James Tod. See…

Temples of Mynal. Menal, Mewar ca. 1820. From the collection of Colonel James Tod. See Tod’s ‘Annals and Antiquities of…

Design for the game of Snakes and Ladders. Finely drawn figures with ornamental borders of flowers on gold. By a…

[RAS 053.001] An equestrian portrait of Prince Dara Shikoh as a young man. By Chitarman, ca. 1640. Gouache: 31 x…

[RAS 053.002] Portrait of the Emperor Jahangir seated on a throne holding a sarpesh, ca. 1720-40 Gouache on paper: 21…

[RAS 053.003] Layla reading to Majnun who sits under a tree by a lotus pool, ca. 1720-40. Gouache on paper,…

[RAS 053.005] Two women in Mughal dress with two female attendants and one male, visiting a female Hindu ascetic in…

[RAS 053.006] A royal pupil and teacher with attendants on a garden terrace; another master and pupil in the foreground….

[RAS 053.007] Prince Aurangzeb spears a mast elephant in the presence of his fathers and brothers. Watercolour with some body…

[RAS 053.008] The Simurgh carries off baby elephants from a herd while a dragon coiled about the tree breathes flames…

[RAS 053.009] A lady listening to a girl vina player on a lakeside terrace with her pet fawn and tortoise…

Jahangir’s mausoleum at Lahore Possibly by a Mughal artist working at Lahore, ca. 1770. Inscribed in Persian characters with measurements…

Rajput princesses killing a lion Bundi, Rajasthan ca. 1820 From the collection of Colonel James Tod. Part of a group…

The battle of Haldighati in 1576 Udaipur, Rajasthan ca. 1820. Attributed to Chokha. The Battle Haldighati took place on June…

Design for a game of Snakes and Ladders, probably by an Ajmer artist, ca. 1810 CE. From the collection of…

Acrobats and wrestlers performing on a hillside Jaipur, ca. 1820-1825 Illustration to the musical mode Desakhya Ragini. From the collection…

Jambudvipa, a Jain cosmological representation of the universe Other title: Adhidvipa | Aḍhāī-dvīpa. By a Marwar artist (Pandit Tilokacanda Dayacanda?),…

Tirumala Nayak’s palace, Madura By an Indian artist, ‘Alaghery Sawrey Naig’. Watermarked 1824. Madura, ca. 1825. Presented to the Royal…

Tirumala Nayak’s New Mandapam, Madura. There is a similar work named Tirumala Nayak’s palace, Madura c. 1825 (see 074.001) by…

Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (1793-1859) was a Parsi philathropist. Artist: J. Smart, Bombay. Engraver: R.J. Lane Inscribed in ink: ‘My dear…

Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh (reigned 1754-75), with ten sons. Artist: Nevasi Lal or Mihr Chand after original painting by Tilly…

‘A Mosque at Juanpore’ Jaunpur, 1802? By Thomas Daniell. Aquatint: Thomas and William Daniell. ‘Oriental Scenery’, III, 9 (Daniell 1795).