James Atkinson was a surgeon, artist and Persian scholar — "a Renaissance man among Anglo-Indians".
Self-portrait ca. 1845, National Portrait Gallery, London
Miniature portrait of the young James Atkinson
Suttee, a painting by James Atkinson 1831
Laili and Majnun
James Prinsep
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James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Bra
James Atkinson (Persian scholar)
…published the first Sanskrit to English dictionary in 1819. For most of 1820 while Wilson was setting up the new Mint at Benares Atkinson worked alongside James Prinsep, the antiquarian and numismatist, at the Calcutta Mint. The appointment at the Mint while not a sinecure as such afforded Atkinson a considerable amount…
James Prinsep in medal cast c. 1840 from the National Portrait Gallery
Young James drawn by his sister Emily
A Preacher Expounding The Poorans. In The Temple of Unn Poorna, Benares. Lithograph by Prinsep (1835)
Lithograph of Kupuldhara Tulao, Benares by Prinsep (1834)