Description (Labels & Markings)
Typed label adhered to folder reads '67', this refers to Singer's original inventory.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay

Description (Physical description)
An album of 37 paintings on mica, scenes depicted include Muslim festivals, Hindu gods and characters.
Event Date 22/11/2017
Author: Annie McKay

Description (Labels & Markings)
Typed list in folder:

15 July 2008

List of Paintings on Sheets of Mica

1. Muslim worshippers before a mobile shrine on two poles. Collection of lanterns of mica hanging above.
2. Muslim worshippers listening to a sermon by an imam, mobile shrine to the right. Collection of mica lanterns above.
3. Procession carrying shrines and heading towards a mosque. Mica lanterns above.
4. Procession, headed by an elephant and three horses, carry various objects.
5. A marriage procession headed by an elephant. Banners and other ornaments in evidence. The bridegroom is on a horse shaded by umbrellas. Two men carry lanterns of mica.
[nos. 1 to 5 are by the same artist]
6. Bird on a tree branch, possibly a Shrike.
7. A Hindu holy man seated on a tiger skin.
8. Holy man with arm raised; it had been held in that position for some time and the nails have grown long.
[nos. 7 and 8 are by the same artist]
9. A rajah.
10. A ranee.
11. A soldier
12. A musician.
13. A chaprahsee.
14. Lady with a pair of scissors.
[paintings nos. 9 to 13 are the work of the same artist]
15. A mace bearer.
16. Servant carrying a soup tureen.
17. Servant with a bunch of keys.
18. Servant with a mace(?)
Event Date 7/3/2018
Author: Mark Elliott