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184711. WD4435

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4435
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804
Extent:
1 Item

184712. WD4436

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4436
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

184713. WD4437

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4437
Title:
In the streets of Delhi.. Artist(s): Menpes, Mortimer (1855-1938)
Scope & Content:
A street scene in Delhi, the bazaar crowded with people and vehicles. Published in ‘India’ (1905, opp. p.24), as: ‘In the streets of Delhi’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1905
Extent:
1 Item

184714. WD4437-4438

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4437-4438
Title:
MENPES, MORTIMER (1855-1938) Born at Port Adelaide, Australia, on 22nd February, 1855 (see exhibition catalogue: ‘Graphic works by Whistler and his as ...
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1905
Extent:
2 items

184715. WD4438

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4438
Title:
A side street in Agra.. Artist(s): Menpes, Mortimer (1855-1938)
Scope & Content:
A street scene in Agra, with two veiled ladies advancing towards the viewer. Published in ‘India’ (1905, opp. p.14), as: ‘A side street in Agra.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900-1905
Extent:
1 Item

184716. WD4439

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4439
Title:
Javanese man in court dress. Artist(s): Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
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’ ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1785-c 1817
Extent:
1 Item

184717. WD4440(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4440(1)
Title:
46 drawings of Indian sports.. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1810-1813
Extent:
1 Item

184718. WD4440(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4440(2)
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

184719. WD4440(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4440(3)
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 Item

184720. WD4441

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4441
Title:
Miniature portrait of an Indian lady. Artist(s): Alefounder, John (1758-94)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1790
Extent:
1 Item

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