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  • A Jain cotton manufacture couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain farmer and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Sanskrit Delta 82. Jain textile, 16th century.
  • Miniature showing Mahavira founder of the Jain religion
  • A Jain accountant with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Two Shwetambar Jain monks. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Marble Jain seated-figure with crossed hands and feet.
  • A Jain bringing money home to his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain holding a harness accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • A Jain horsegroom with his wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • The twenty-four tirthankaras of the Jain religion. Gouache by an Indian artist, 18--.
  • Harinaigamesi replaces the foetus conceived by Queen Trisala, a member of the Ksatriya or warrior lady cast, with that of the foetus of Mahavira which has been removed from the Brahmin woman. From the Kalpa sutra a religious Jain text dealing with the lives of the 24 Jinas or founders of Jainsim
  • Indian goldsmiths at work. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.
  • Hindi Manuscript 743
  • Wellcome MS Indic Beta 1471
  • Fort of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1786.
  • Two Indian soldiers (?) take aim and fire their rifles. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • An Indian bearer holding a large, richly decorated fan or banner, horizontally on his shoulder. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two men sharpening a knife whilst the third prepares the blade on a sword. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A couple preparing tandoori rotis: the woman faces the tandoor and shapes the bread with her hands as she nurses her baby, whilst the man kneeds the dough. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two carpenters, possibly father and son, at work. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A man raises a stick as the oxen plough the land. Watercolour by an Indian artist.