| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A30057%27%29">ABDUA:30057</a> | picture painting (Archibald Forbes) | | Forbes,Archibald LLd |
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Subject: Forbes,Archibald LLd |
Description:Oil painting, 3/4 portrait, standing, facing. Short greying brown hair, walrus moustache, wears olive drab trenchcoat, white scarf, arms behind back holding papers. Plate reads 'Archibald Forbes LLD AFTER H Von HERKOMER', so possibly a copy. Herkomer ran a school in Bushey in Hertfordshire in 1890's. He was a very successful portraitist. The pose is in late 19th-century style. Archibald Forbes (1838-1900) was a war correspondent and a large collection of medals given to him were bequeathed to the University 1922. This portrait is glazed. Inscription: Label on back: MILITARY EXHIBITION LONDON, 1901. | HISTORICAL AND RELIC SECTION | BACK LABEL | No...... | Title of Picture or Work.... Portrait of Archibald Forbes | after H. V. Hercomer, R.A. | Contributer's Name and Address .... Mrs Archibald Forbes | 1 Clarence Terrace | Regent's Park | Price (if for sale) s. d. | Please attach this label to BACK of Picture [show more]
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| LEMUR 1000418 | map | | Map of the Nile |
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| LEMUR 1000417 | Map | | Map of the River Tigris. Inscription: Map of the River Tigris from Bagdad to Persian Gulf and babylon |
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Subject: Map of the River Tigris. Inscription: Map of the River Tigris from Bagdad to Persian Gulf and babylon |
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A26004%27%29">ABDUA:26004</a> | sculpture carving stupa fragment | | Maya's.dream |
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Subject: Maya's.dream |
Description:Fragment from a carved schist relief representing Queen Maya's dream. Inscription: Old label in red ink: 14
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A26018%27%29">ABDUA:26018</a> | sculpture carving stupa fragment | | seated Buddha |
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Subject: seated Buddha |
Description:Statue of the seated Buddha in meditation, halo slightly broken, below the seat are five smaller figures, four are seated in the lotus position and one is standing. Inscription: Typed label on back: GRAECO-BUDDHIST FIGURE FOUND NEAR MORA PASS, SWAT VALLEY BY COL. REID. 29 P. I. CHITRAL RELIEF EXPEDITION, 1895 [show more]
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A26017%27%29">ABDUA:26017</a> | sculpture carving stupa fragment | | seated Buddha |
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Subject: seated Buddha |
Description:Statue of the seated Buddha in meditation, halo broken and one hand and arm missing, figure below seat.
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A64996%27%29">ABDUA:64996</a> | sculpture carving three.figures Buddha | | seated Buddha with gods |
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Subject: seated Buddha with gods |
Description:Seated figure of Buddha, draped figure, feet on a footstool, hands missing, 'halo' behind head. Flanked by two standing figures each with topknot and halo, perhaps representing the gods, Brahma and Indra, entreating with the Buddha.
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A26020%27%29">ABDUA:26020</a> | sculpture carving stupa fragment | | the death of the Buddha |
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Subject: the death of the Buddha |
Description:Fragment of a carved relief representing the death of the Buddha.
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A61932%27%29">ABDUA:61932</a> | figure | | The.Queen.of.Heaven |
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Subject: The.Queen.of.Heaven |
Description:Figure of 'The Queen of Heaven' in wood, traces of gilding.
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A5993%27%29">ABDUA:5993</a> | drum | | Yoruba Ogboni |
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Subject: Yoruba Ogboni |
Description:Carved wooden drum with skin missing. Bottom filled with fibre (? muffle). Decorated with carved human and animal figures. Used in sending messages and in summoning people together. Willett states that: 'this drum is from an Ogboni house carved in the style of Osi Ekiti District'. [show more]
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