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formerly India Office: dept of Prints, Drawings & Photographs @britishlibrary, + Fay Godwin, Kodak Archive & Fox Talbot collections (tweets by Malini & Nicole)
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We are recruiting for a cataloguer of South Asian natural history drawings (3 month post) working with our amazing collections of ornithological and entomology drawings. Applications close January 2, 2023. https://t.co/bBmqhOLkMX

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Happy Here is a tinted drawing of a woman playing a sitar, c. 1740
Johnson 21, 2

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A couple small spiny animals from our collection

NHD1/17 – Landak padi, a long tailed from Sumatra, 1784-1808
NHD3/515 - c. 1804-1805

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Watercolour drawing of an Indian Paradise-Flycatcher 'Terpsiphone paradisi’

British Library NHD29/25

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Celebrating the art of the book with this watercolour drawing of a bookbinder at work

BL Add Or 1111, 1798-1804

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Posthumous portrait of Chand Bibi of Ahmadnagar (d.1599) who became queen regent of Bijapur after her husband ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah I’s death & who defended her city against Mughal forces

BL Add Or 3849

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A squirrel with a large nut, standing on a ground with mountainous background, and a study of one of its feet, by an unknown South Asian artist, c. 1821

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Flying one climbing a tree, the other leaping

Watercolour, c. 1820
BL Add Or 4983

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Chand Bibi hawking, c. 1800. Posthumous portrait of Chand Bibi of Ahmadnagar who became queen regent of Bijapur upon her husband ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah I’s death in 1580

BL Add Or 3849

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that when the India Museum was dispersed in 1879 botanical drawings were sent to with duplicates going to Edinburgh

The BL also houses natural history works from the India Museum. Here’s one with some furry friends NHD1/19

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