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Miniature portrait of Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, with powdered hair and scarlet uniform, wearing the sash and star of St Patrick and the star of the Turkish Crescent. Artist(s): Shirreff, Charles ((fl. 1770-1823)
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Miniature portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), successively Earl of Mornington and Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal 1798-1805, with powdered hair and scarlet uniform, wearing the sash and star of St. Patrick and the star of the Turkish Crescent. Inscribed on paper lin...
Cameo portrait to right in grisaille of John Herbert Harington, Bengal Civil Service. Signed and dated by Samuel Andrews, Calcutta, 1803. Artist(s): Andrews, Samuel (1767-1807)
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Cameo portrait to right in grisaille of John Herbert Harington (1764-1828), Bengal Civil Service,1803. Signed and dated: ‘S. Andrews Calcutta 1803.’ In ink inside case lid: ‘John Harrington’ [sic] ‘Esq Bengal Civil Service.’ Written by an unknown hand on a piece of brown paper within the case:...
MENPES, MORTIMER (1855-1938) Born at Port Adelaide, Australia, on 22nd February, 1855 (see exhibition catalogue: ‘Graphic works by Whistler and his as ...
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MENPES, MORTIMER (1855-1938) Born at Port Adelaide, Australia, on 22nd February, 1855 (see exhibition catalogue: ‘Graphic works by Whistler and his associates,’ Art Gallery of South Australia, 1975), Menpes studied first in Adelaide and then reached London probably in 1875. He studied first und...
Javanese man in court dress. Artist(s): Daniell, William (1769-1837)
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Figure study of a standing Javanese nobleman in court dress. By William Daniell. 1785-c.1817. Pencil; 20.5 by 13.5 cm. Purchased 1997. Note: A preliminary drawing for William Daniell’s coloured aquatint ‘A Javan in the Court Dress’, published in Sir T. Stamford Raffles’ ‘History of Java’ ...
46 drawings of Indian sports.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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46 drawings of Indian sports in sepia ink on thin paper normally folded, with drawings on both sides in album format. c.1810-13. Inscribed where noted by D’Oyly, with additional titles taken from the corresponding subjects in WD4440(2). Four of the drawings (ff.22-23) have no correspondence i...
58 proof engravings by John Landseer of D’Oyly’s Indian sports series WD4440(1), plus one original Chinnery drawing of a hunting scene.. Artist(s): Landseer, John (1769-1852) after D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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58 proof engravings by John Landseer of D’Oyly’s Indian sports series, plus one original Chinnery drawing. 1814-15. Engravings laid down on both sides of folios forming a small album. Album pages of laid paper watermarked ‘...IPPS’ with a crowned shield design, some (numbered between 19 and 4...
21 drawings of Indian sports on tracing paper, taken from the subjects of D'Oyly's albums WD4405-4406.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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21 drawings of Indian sports in pencil on brown tracing paper, some simply tracings, others more worked up, taken from (or from a further series of exemplars of) the corresponding subjects in WD4405 and 4406, two albums of water-colours of Indian sports presented by D’Oyly to Lady Hastings appar...
Miniature portrait of an Indian lady. Artist(s): Alefounder, John (1758-94)
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Miniature portrait of an Indian lady. 1790. Facing right, she wears a green-bordered white sari and many necklaces, armlets and RIngs, large earrings and a crescent-moon shaped pendant over her forehead, suspended from a pearl necklace arranged over her long loose hair. In her right hand is the...