Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

1,045 works match

Gem Fletcher and Ken Hermann shoot death-defying Indian tradition The Well of Death

Exhibition Design: Plaid transform The British Library into Mughal India

Short film studies self expression via fashion and cross-dressing in Pakistan

Photographer Anu Kumar on reconnecting with her Indian heritage, failing exams and recipes for weddings

Great film follows reportage illustrator George Butler on a trip to Afghanistan

The View From Mumbai: the Indian photographers taking back control through self-publishing

Mahesh Shantaram presents a look beneath the glossy veneer of Indian weddings

Dishoom collaborates with illustrator Manjit Thapp on T-shirts memorialising iconic Indian women

India DSC01465 (16102398513)

India DSC01466 (16721269742)

India DSC01463 (16102403403)

Moksha captures the diversity of religious rituals across India

Khichdi (Kitchari) brings together 846 photographs of India, and its people, taken over ten years

From Seoul to Chennai, London and back to Seoul again: Joonho Ko explains how travel has aided his illustrative practice

Votive Plaque

Votive Plaque

Votive Plaque

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Shard

Shard

Garland Holder with a Winged Celestial

Vajradharma Lokeshvara

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Plaque in the Form of a Standing Female Figure

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Shard

Mirror Handle: Standing Woman

Shard

Intaglio Ring with Two Figures

Monumental Bodhisattva Head

Shard

Reliquary

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Dish with Eros on a Swan

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Iskandarnama (Book of Alexander)

Dish with Winged Eros Riding a Lion-Headed Sea Monster

Shard

Tara

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Garuda Vanquishing the Naga Clan

Buddha

Dish with Busts of a Man and Woman

Relief Panel: Presentation of a Statue

Shard

Reliquary

Shard

Standing Female Deity

Bust of a Bodhisattva Shakyamuni

Shard with Figural Decoration

Shard

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collction)

Panel of a Portable Shrine

Ritual Incense Burner

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Dish with the Drunken Hercules Supported by Two Women and Flanked by a Lion

Dish with a Mythological Couple (Perhaps Apollo and Daphne)

Shard

Standing Buddha

Standing Bodhisattva

Mold for a Buddha's Head

Vajrapani Attends the Buddha at His First Sermon

Dish with Apollo and Daphne

Pair of Ear Plugs with Hamsas (Wild Geese)

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Head of the Fasting Siddhartha

Dipankara Jataka (The Story of the Ascetic Megha and the Buddha Dipankara)

Shard

Reliquary with Ancient Repairs

Reliquary with Contents

Two Standing Women

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Shard

Shard

Panel of a Portable Shrine

Box Lid with a Bull

Wrestler's Weight with Hercules and the Nemean Lion; Wrestling Scene (reverse)

The Ramaka Casket; Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by Ramaka