Bengali Collection

The Maharani of Koch Bihar, West Bengal, India, 1893. Artist: W&D Downey
The Maharani of Koch Bihar, West Bengal, India, 1893. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1893)

The 70th Bengal Native Infantry drawing rations at the Commissariat Stores, Canton, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The 70th Bengal Native Infantry drawing rations at the Commissariat Stores, Canton, 1858. Indian soldiers in China. The Bengalese drawing their rations make a rather good subject for the picturesque;

Ekas, Bengal Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Ekas, Bengal Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The Eka is one of the many forms of Indian vehicles

Rajah Harendra Krishna, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Rajah Harendra Krishna, 1876. Engraving from a photograph. Rajah Harendra Krishna, a member of the Bengal Legislative Council

Native Trooper and his Groom, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Native Trooper and his Groom, 1857. The native troopers of Bengal, being mostly gentlemen of high caste, are, or were, a very proud and dashing sort of persons

The Nawab of Morshedabad at Prayer, from a native drawing, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Nawab of Morshedabad at Prayer, from a native drawing, 1857. The Engraving representing the Nawab of Morshedabad at Prayer...gives a faithful idea of the interior of a Mahometan place of worship;

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Dispensing Boons... early 12th century. Creator: Mahavihara Master
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Dispensing Boons: Folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript, early 12th century. Avalokiteshvara, bodhisattva of compassion

Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta, c. 1823 / 1824. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta, c. 1823/1824

Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta, Seated and Standing, c. 1823 / 1824
Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta, Seated and Standing, c. 1823/1824

View of Chandanagore, 1858-61. Creator: Unknown
View of Chandanagore, 1858-61

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee... early 12th century
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript, early 12th century

Watchman Chatter Singh, Singapore, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Watchman Chatter Singh, Singapore, 1898. Portrait of a Bengal-born man who worked as a watchman. Chatter Singh, Jagapintu beim Chinesen Salang Sia geboren [?] in Ambersan Bengalen

Irregular Cavalry, Bengal Army 1817 (1819). Artist: Havell & Son
Irregular Cavalry, Bengal Army 1817 (1819). Plate 5 from Journal of a Route Across India, through Egypt, to England by George Augustus Fitzclarence

Rocket Corps and Dromedary Corps, Bengal Army 1817 (1819). Artist: Havell & Son
Rocket Corps and Dromedary Corps, Bengal Army 1817 (1819). From Journal of a Route Across India and Through Egypt by George Augustus Fitzclarence

Escape of Suraja Dowla from Plassey, 1757 (c1912). Betrayed by Mir Jafar, then commander of Nawabs army, Siraj lost the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757

Indian woman with her child, Calcutta, India, late 19th or early 20th century. Postcard, printed in Germany

The 13th Bengal Lancers, c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
The 13th Bengal Lancers, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

11th Bengal Native Infantry, c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
11th Bengal Native Infantry, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian philosopher and poet, c1930-1941

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