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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he started to publish the ‘Calcutta Journal,’ which took such a very anti-government line that his publisher’s licence was revoked and he was...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