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Collection Area Visual Arts Material Type Artefacts

151. Foster 969-971

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 969-971
Title:
Three tables with stamped leather tops. En suite with F966-968. L. 5'x D.2'2". Hardy furniture catalogue no.66.
Scope & Content:
Three tables with stamped leather tops. En suite with F966-968. L. 5'x D.2'2". J. Hardy ‘India Office Furniture’, no.66.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

152. Foster 972

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 972
Title:
Chair, no.13 in Hardy's 'India Office Furniture'.
Scope & Content:
Chair. J. Hardy ‘India Office Furniture’, no.13.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:
1 Item

153. Foster 973

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 973
Title:
Chair, similar to no.14 in Hardy's 'India Office Furniture'.
Scope & Content:
Chair. J. Hardy ‘India Office Furniture’, similar to no.14.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:
1 Item

154. Foster 974

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 974
Title:
Chair, similar to no.55 in Hardy's 'India Office Furniture', but with carved rosettes.
Scope & Content:
Chair. J. Hardy ‘India Office Furniture’, similar to no.55.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1830
Extent:
1 Item

155. Foster 975

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 975
Title:
Portrait bust of Friedrich August Rosen (1805-37). Scholar of Sanskrit and the Semitic languages. Artist(s): Westmacott, Richard, Jr. (1799-1872)
Scope & Content:
Friedrich August Rosen (1805-37), an undraped bust. c.1837. Facsimile after the marble in the British Museum. Height 55 cm. Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. Rosen was born in Hanover, and studied at Gottingen and Leipzig, where he abandoned law in favour of oriental studies. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1837
Extent:
1 Item

156. Foster 977

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 977
Title:
Relief portrait of James Silk Buckingham. Monogrammed HD London, with subject's signature. Artist(s): D., H. (c.1852)
Scope & Content:
D., H. Relief profile portrait of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), facing left. Buckingham spent his youth at sea, and reached India in 1815. In 1818 he started to publish the ‘Calcutta Journal,’ which took such a very anti-government line that his publisher’s licence was revoked and he was...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 Item

157. Foster 979

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 979
Title:
Ami Chand ('Ummeechund'), a trooper in Skinner's Horse who saved the life of William Fraser in 1819. Terracotta model painted in polychrome, based on the painting originally in the Fraser Albums.
Scope & Content:
Terracotta model of ‘Ummeechund’, a trooper of Skinner’s Horse, wearing the distinctive long yellow coat with red trimmings, a black jacket with red frogging and with facings at the collar in white with red trim, a tiger-skin bandolier, a tall shako marked with a crescent and with red trimmings ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1820
Extent:
1 Item

158. Foster 981

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 981
Title:
Indian matchlock with punched silver sheet decoration from Datia State.
Scope & Content:
Indian matchlock (‘bandukh torador’) with punched silver sheet decoration and ‘Datia State’ inlaid in gold on the breech. Muzzle-loading. Barrel held in stock by wire (defective). Datia State is in Central India, adjacent to Gwalior and Jhansi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1850
Extent:
1 Item

159. Foster 981-1033

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 981-1033
Title:
F981-1033 India Office Weapons. This collection contains guns, bayonets, swords, a sword bag and a medal. These 53 items were formerly kept in the I ...
Scope & Content:
F981-1033 India Office Weapons. This collection contains guns, bayonets, swords, a sword bag and a medal. These 53 items were formerly kept in the India Office building in Whitehall. Some of the weapons in the collection were production pieces as made in quantity and used in India, while oth...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1940
Extent:
53 items

160. Foster 982

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 982
Title:
East India Company Pattern F Percussion Musket.
Scope & Content:
This musket was made in 1844-46, as is indicated by its ‘H’ and ‘K’ inspection codes. Markings on the buttplate indicate that it was issued from the Grand Arsenal, Bombay, between October and December 1859 (3rd quarter of the official year 1859[-60]). Stamped ‘26’ on side of butt. Trigger gua...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1846
Extent:
1 Item