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Paintings. Visual works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Painting of the Krishna Avatar by Kapur Singh., [Circa 1865.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.16490
Scope and Contents

The painting is one of a series depicting the incarnations of Vishnu by a Sikh artist from Amritsar working for Colonel August C Honner. It shows Vasudeva carrying the infant Krishna across the river Yamuna.

Dates: [Circa 1865.]

Paintings by Indian artists.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16486-16489

Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10336
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.

Dates: 1770.

‘Roll of all the Duckes, Marquisses, Earles, Viscounts, Barrons of Parliament, Bischopes and officiars of Estaite according to ther precedencey ... 1633`, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iii)
Scope and Contents

The dates of some creations are given. A painting of a mitre precedes the section on archbishops and bishops. At the end are notes on the funerary trappings to which the different ranks were entitled.

Dates: 1633.

Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates: 13th century-17th century.

'Scraps given by the old familiars of John A. and Edith J. Hipkins. Collected by the survivor.’, Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2928
Scope and Contents

The scrap-book contains a painting and woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall (given to John A Hipkins by Charles Keene); original drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, J F Sullivan, John A Hipkins himself, and others; a painting by Edith J Hipkins (page 64); illustrations cut out of Punch and other reproductions; and Valentines, letters, etc., addressed to Miss Hipkins.

Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Six painting of elephants, Indian.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6525