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1. Mss Eur B265/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B265/1
Title:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
Scope & Content:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. ff.11-22 Views in France. f.31 Malta. Pencil. f.37 Pyramids and sph...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

2. Mss Eur B265/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B265/2
Title:
An album of views, flower studies and miscellaneous drawings made in India between 1838 and 1850. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
Scope & Content:
An album with some blank folios of views, flower studies and miscellaneous drawings made between 1838 and 1850 by Mary Emma Walter née Coulthard (1816-1850), assorted sizes laid down, various media. In many cases the drawings are duplicated in her journal, Mss Eur B 265/1. ff.5-8 Views in Franc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. WD34

Reference (shelfmark):
WD34
Title:
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper

4. WD3274

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3274
Title:
‘Colonel D’arcy Drawings Made During the Embassy to Persia 1810–12’ by Joseph D’Arcy (1780–1846)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains fifty-eight watercolour landscape views of locations visited during the Ouseley embassy to Persia, 1810–12, as well as two handlists, probably created by later owner F. G. McCutcheon c. 1880, two notes from The Graphic magazine to McCutcheon and a newspa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-12
Extent:
Album of 58 watercolour drawings of views of Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, mostly made during the Ouseley embassy to Tehran (1810–12), 1 newspaper cutting, 2 notes and 2 handlists (c. 1880) lightly tipped into a leather-bound album.