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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject topographical views

1. WD129

Reference (shelfmark):
WD129
Title:
'Cape Fartak on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

2. WD130

Reference (shelfmark):
WD130
Title:
'Ras Sharma on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

3. WD1240

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1240
Title:
'Muskat Harbour, Persian Gulf (Arabia).' by Norman Victor Lacey Rybot (1876-1961)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1915
Extent:
1 drawing

4. WD1348

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1348
Title:
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.

5. WD3475

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3475
Title:
'The North Pass of Aden or Baab el Yemen. Inside' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the ‘North Pass’, or Baab el Yemen, at Aden. This probably depicts a pass between the main British settlement at Crater and Khormakser. “Inside” may refer to the location the drawing depicts, or to the fact that it depicts the south side of the pass, i.e. within th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

6. WD3479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3479
Title:
'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the verandah of Haines’s bungalow at Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbūţ] looking towards Little Aden. Haines sits facing away from the viewer at right, apparently sketching. His wife and another woman stand at centre in profile, looking out to sea. Several chairs, benches and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 watercolour and pencil drawing on paper

7. WD3526

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3526
Title:
'Aden from near the South Gate.' by Anon. (C.B.)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing

8. WD3527

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3527
Title:
'Gebel Shumshum. Aden from Ras Tarshayen.' by John Cumming Anderson (1825-70)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing

9. WD3533-3536

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3533-3536
Title:
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil, mostly incomplete, record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1834
Extent:
9 topographical views on four sheets of paper