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Reference (shelfmark):: WD4310
Title:: Inscribed on original mount: 'In Bokaby Park. Yorkshire'. Artist(s): White, George Francis (1808-1898)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed on original mount: ‘In Rokaby Park. Yorkshire W.R. G.F.W. Del.’ 32 by 48.3 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1846-1850s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4313
Title:: A sanyasi, standing before a palm tree. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: A ‘sanyasi’, standing before a palm tree. Inscribed: ‘A Soonassee’. Water-colour; 43.4 by 31 cm. Note: See Section 7, no.6 of ‘The Hindoos’, a mirror image of the drawing.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4314
Title:: Two standing figures, one with a bow and arrow. Preliminary study for the watercolour of the Poggy Islanders, see the Kyd Collection, Mss Eur F21/2. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: Two standing figures, one with a bow and arrow. Pencil; 43.2 by 30 cm. Note: Preliminary study for the water-colour of the Poggy Islanders, see the Kyd Collection, Mss Eur F21/II.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4315
Title:: Standing ascetic wearing a dagger and carrying a small staff. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: Standing ascetic wearing a dagger and carrying a small staff. Pencil; 37 by 25 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4316
Title:: Standing ascetic holding a rosary. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: Standing ascetic holding a rosary. Pencil; 36.5 by 25 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317
Title:: Four original drawings by Robert Grindlay in an album compiled by Grindlay of the original drawings for the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone’s 'An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India', London, 1815.. Artist(
Scope & Content:: The album contains four original water-colour drawings by Grindlay, and ten drawings by Indian artists (Add.Or.4670-79), with notes and letters relating to the illustrations of the book. The whole album was offered to Lord Elphinstone in 1865 when a biography of Mountstuart Elphinstone was bein...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1813
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317, f.5
Title:: Hyderabad on the Indus. Plate 5, frontispiece to vol. III of Burnes’ Travels into Bokhara, by Edward Francis Finden after William Purser and Robert Melville Grindlay.. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857) after Purser, W (c.1790-1852) and Grin
Scope & Content:: ‘Hyderabad on the Indus. From a sketch taken on the spot by Capt. Grindlay in 1808. Drawn by W. Purser. Engraved by E. Finden. London. Published 1834 by John Murray, Albemarle Street’. Inscribed on album page: ‘From Alex Burnes to Captain Grindlay with many acknowledgements’....
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317, f.6
Title:: Proof impression before letterpress of frontispiece to vol. 1 of Burnes’ Travels into Bokhara, inscribed: Portrait of Sir Alexr. Burnes in a Cabul dress 1834.. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857) after Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870)
Scope & Content:: Proof impression before letterpress of frontispiece to vol. 1 of Burnes’ ‘Travels into Bokhara’, inscribed: ‘Portrait of Sir Alexr. Burnes in a Cabul dress 1834’, and by Grindlay on the album page: ‘from Sir Alexr. Burnes to RMG’. Note: The title of the engraving is actually ‘Cost...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317, f.7va
Title:: The two colossal Buddha images at Bamian, Afghanistan.. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Burnes, Alexander (1805-1841)
Scope & Content:: The two colossal Buddha images at Bamian, Afghanistan. Inscribed: ‘Colossal Idols of Bameean’. Pen and ink and water-colour; 30 by 40 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1830
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317, f.7vb
Title:: The Colossal Idols at Bameean. On stone by L. Haghe. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895) after Burnes, Alexander (1805-1841)
Scope & Content:: ‘The Colossal Idols at Bameean. On stone by L. Haghe. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the King. Gate St. J. Murray. Albemarle St. 1834’. Note: Burnes’ ‘Travels in Bokhara’. vol. I, plate II. For the artist, see f.7d below.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 Item

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