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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Subject ethnic and religious groups Level [40] File

1. Mss Eur C14

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Mss Eur C14
Title:
Buchanan-Hamilton Drawings Volume I: Costumes of Bihar
Scope & Content:
42 drawings depicting the dress worn by Hindu and Muslim men and women of various classes and castes in both the hot and cold seasons (folios 1-50), plus four drawings depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical insturments and pottery (folios 51-57). Costume drawings by a Patna artist, c1814; et...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1814
Extent:
1 volume

2. Mss Eur F21/2

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Mss Eur F21/2
Title:
Account of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, containing a map and 14 drawings of views chiefly in Penang, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 1 and 3 by Frans Balthazar Solvyns. The rest are copies of others' sketches perhaps by Solvyns.. Artist(s): Solvyns, F
Scope & Content:
A map and 14 drawings of views chiefly in Penang, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, from an ‘Account of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,’ compiled by Captain Alexander Kyd (1754-1826), c.1792. He was the nephew of Robert Kyd (1746-93), founder of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens at Sibpur. Alexander in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1787-1792
Extent:
1 Item

3. Mss Eur F85/58, ff.3-41

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Mss Eur F85/58, ff.3-41
Title:
A sketch of Hakim Khuda Baksh and Din Muhammad Syed Imam Shah seated together and a torn sketch-book containing 21 portrait-sketches, head and shoulders, made as aide-memoire to the manuscript 'Notes on Sikh Officers after 2nd Sikh War'. c. 1849. Artis
Scope & Content:
Deposited on permanent loan by his descendant, John W. Lawrence Esq., 14 May 1954, and donated in 1992. f.3 Sketch of Hakim Khuda Baksh and Din Muhammad Syed Imam Shah seated together. c.1849. Inscribed on back in ink: ‘Hakeem Khoda Baksh Deen Mohammad Syud Imam Shah.’ Pen-and-ink; 5 by 9 ins...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1849
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD1478

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WD1478
Title:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-56
Extent:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England

5. WD3110

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WD3110
Title:
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album