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6071. WD4407

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4407
Title:
Head and shoulders miniature portrait of Sir John Hadley D’Oyly, 6th Bart. (1753-1818). Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
Scope & Content:
Head and shoulders portrait of Sir John Hadley D’Oyly, 6th Bart. (1753-1818), c.1810. Water-colour on ivory; 98 by 85 mm. Provenance: D’Oyly family by descent. Sotheby’s 15 July 1974, part lot 41. Purchased 1995. Note: The sitter was Resident at the court of Murshidabad during Warren Hasting...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

6072. WD4408

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4408
Title:
A landau drawn by two camels with a man and woman leaning back in the seat. Two grooms are mounted on the camels, a manservant and a maid sit at the front and two bearers with fly whisks stand behind. Artist(s): Gordon, Sir Thomas Edward (1832-1914)
Scope & Content:
A landau drawn by two camels with a man and woman leaning back in the seat. Two grooms are mounted on the camels, a manservant and a maid sit at the front and two bearers with fly whisks stand behind. Inscribed:’ Ready to start. Thos. E. Gordon. Wuzeerabad. August 1855.’ Water-colour and p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

6073. WD4409-4410

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4409-4410
Title:
HUDSON, WILLIAM J.L. (1778-1834) Applied to the East India Company for permission to go to India as a free mariner and arrived in 1809. He appears to ...
Scope & Content:
HUDSON, WILLIAM J.L. (1778-1834) Applied to the East India Company for permission to go to India as a free mariner and arrived in 1809. He appears to have started working as a portrait painter in Calcutta almost at once, and is sometimes described as a ‘scene painter,’ presumably for one of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1826-1827
Extent:
2 items

6074. WD4411

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4411
Title:
Hill fort at Tyaga Durgam, South Arcot District
Scope & Content:
Hill fort at Tyaga Durgam, South Arcot District. Inscribed:’ North-East View of the Hill Fort at Tiagar taken at the distance of 320 yards from the Lower Fort Wall - July 12th 1787.’ Pen and ink with green and grey washes; 34 by 56.5cm. with painted border. Purchased 1995. Note: The fort, th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1787
Extent:
1 Item

6075. WD4413

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4413
Title:
Album of 29 drawings of views in Kathiawar State. Artist(s): H., H. (fl. 1871-1874)
Scope & Content:
An album of 29 drawings, various sizes, some on tinted paper, in water-colour over pencil, laid down in random order. Most are dated, the earliest being January1871 and the latest June 1874, and all but four are signed with the initials HH. The drawings are of views in Kathiawar State, which woul...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1874
Extent:
1 Item

6076. WD4416

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4416
Title:
Ornate howdah in silver and silver gilt, lined in red velvet, the sides decorated with the Royal coat of arms. Artist(s): Lundgren, Egron Sellif (1815-1875)
Scope & Content:
Ornate howdah in silver and silver gilt, lined in red velvet, the sides decorated with the Royal coat of arms. c.1860. Inscribed on original mount: ‘State howdah of the Governor-General’, and on reverse of original mount an inscription in Swedish, relating to Lundgren. Water-colour; 25.5 by 33...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 Item

6077. WD4417

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4417
Title:
Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing. Artist(s): Porter, John Young (1780-1812)
Scope & Content:
Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing. Inscribed on reverse of original mount, now m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 Item

6078. WD4418

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4418
Title:
A view on the Ganges. Artist(s): Zoffany, Johann (1733-1810)
Scope & Content:
A view on the Ganges. Black, white and red chalk on grey paper; 27.2 by 45.5 cm. Purchased 1995. Note: A note in ink on the reverse of the frame read: ‘This is one of a group of drawings by Zoffany, inherited by Major R.G. Hutchinson from his father,’ ‘Brigadier Hutchinson’. Drawings of this...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1788
Extent:
1 Item

6079. WD4419, WD4436, WD4442

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4419, WD4436, WD4442
Title:
ANDREWS, SAMUEL (1767-1807) Portrait painter, born in Ireland. Applied to the EIC for permission to go to India in 1791, and although the Court of Di ...
Scope & Content:
ANDREWS, SAMUEL (1767-1807) Portrait painter, born in Ireland. Applied to the EIC for permission to go to India in 1791, and although the Court of Directors decided that it should be withheld, Andrews appears to have been in Madras sometime during the same year. Early miniatures painted in Madr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1801-1803
Extent:
3 items

6080. WD4420-4423

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4420-4423
Title:
HESSING COLLECTION. WD4420-4423 Four miniature portraits connected with members of the Hessing family, who were European mercena ...
Scope & Content:
HESSING COLLECTION --------------------- WD4420-4423 Four miniature portraits connected with members of the Hessing family, who were European mercenaries in the service of the Maratha chiefs of Gwalior. All in original gilt gesso frames, with a damaged 19th century inscription on the reverse...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1806
Extent:
4 items

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