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The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, with a palanquin and resting bearers by the shore. Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
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The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, with a palanquin and resting bearers by the shore, 1802-05. Water-colour, pencil and pen-and-ink, with scratching out; 195 by 255 mm. Purchased 2000. Published: P. Conner, George Chinnery 1774-1852, London, 1993, col. pl. 11. Note: The drawing is in an earl...
East view of Bangalore, with a small shrine and a dismounted horseman in the foreground, and cattle grazing beyond.. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
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East view of Bangalore, with a small shrine and a dismounted horseman in the foreground, and cattale grazing beyond. Signed lower left: ‘R.H. Colebrooke delt. 1791’, and again on the mount lower right: ‘Drawn on the spot by R.H. Colebrooke’. On the reverse of the old mount by the artist: ‘This...
View of Seringapatam 1792. View from the east, showing the strengthened fortifications on that side, with the mosque and temple towers visible beyond.. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
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View of Seringapatam 1792. View from the east, showing the strengthened fortifications on that side, with the mosque and temple towers visible beyond. Rocks and a tree in the left foreground, different from the engraved plate, with travellers approaching the city and cattle grazing beyond. Si...
Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace Madras by Azim al-Daula, Nawab of the Carnatic, 18th February 1805. Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
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Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace, Madras, by the Nawab ‘Azim al-Daula of the Carnatic, 18th February 1805. Wellesley is being introduced by a languid Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, the Governor of Madras, bo...
The Lawrence Album: volume of prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs connected with the life of Sir Henry Montgomery and Lady Honoria Douglas Lawrence and their family. Photographer(s): Hutchinson, Charles Waterloo
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Album of 66 drawings, prints and cut-outs, along with 35 photographs connected with the life of Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806-1857) and Honoria Lawrence, née Marshall (1810-54), presented to their daughter Honoria Letitia (1850-1923) in 1859 by her aunt and godmother Charlotte Frances Lawrence...
'Aboo Lawrence School.' For the Founder, with the Secretary's kind regards. Photographer: Mildmay, Arthur George St John
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Inscription: Signed on mount, 'A. G. St. J. Mildmay fecit. 'Aboo' March 25th/57.' Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Lawrence School at Abu, with figures posed on the verandah and on the driveway in front of the buildings. The following figures are identified beneath the prin...
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Honoria Letitia Lawrence (1850-1923), daughter of Sir Henry Lawrence. She later married Henry Hart, headmaster of Sedbergh School, Cumbria.
Henry W. Lawrence. Sent back from Lucknow, 1858. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a youth and a young woman, seated on a garden seat in front of a building, presumably in England. The young man is (Sir) Henry Waldemar Lawrence (1845-1908), son of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence.
Alick and the two Charlies. Sent back from Lucknow. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of three young men, seated on the garden seat also seen in print 19b. 'Alick' is presumably (Sir) Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence (1838-1864), son of Sir Henry Lawrence.