Album of drawings made during the artist's first tour of India.. Artist(s): Massingham, Mike (b.1952)
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Album of drawings made during Massingham’s first tour of India in 1986. Cloth covered notebook purchased from a stationer in New Delhi. 290 by 230 mm. Note: Massingham’s luggage was stolen three months into this journey, so this notebook replaced the sketchbook he had originally been using. ...
Himalayan view, Gangotri, original drawing for aquatint published in Views in the Himala. Artist(s): Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)
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FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783-1856) ‘Gangotree the holy shrine of Mahadeo’, 1815. Watercolour heightened with white; 27 by 38.5 cm. Inscribed in pencil on back of drawing:: ‘The source of the Ganges in the East Indies.’ Provenance: Rathbone Collection, Liverpool; purchased 2003. Published...
The Left Battery at the Observatory (Pir-Ghaib) on the Ridge at Delhi, 1857.. Artist(s): Tandy, Francis Latter (1835-57)
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The Left Battery at the Observatory (Pir-Ghaib) on the Ridge at Delhi, 1857. Inscribed: ‘August 11th, ’57.’ ‘No. 1. View of the Observatory with a part of the left heavy gun battery which is immediately in front of it; as this battery is built just on the edge of the hill it was impossible ...
The picquet at Flagstaff Tower on top of the Ridge at Delhi, with part of the camp, 1857.. Artist(s): Tandy, Francis Latter (1835-57)
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The picquet at Flagstaff Tower on top of the Ridge at Delhi, with part of the camp, 1857. ‘No. 3. View of the Flagstaff Tower and picket post on the height in our front; the road leading down to the right past the tents leads to camp and the continuation of this road in the opposite direction...
The Chauburji Mosque on the Ridge at Delhi with the Mosque Picquet, with Delhi in the distance, 1857.. Artist(s): Tandy, Francis Latter (1835-57)
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The Chauburji Mosque on the Ridge at Delhi with the Mosque Picquet, with Delhi in the distance, 1857. ‘No. 4. View of the Mosque Picket from the road leading from Camp; here you see also the road leading from the Flagstaff (from the left) on to the right to Hindoo Rao’s, from the Mosque there...
View of an entrance to the temple at Kerdah, near Barrackpore. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
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View of an entrance to the temple at Kerdah, near Barrackpore Pencil, pen and brown ink and water-colour; 431 x 660 mm. Engraved: by J. Moffat as ‘Barrackpore, Pagoda near Khardah,’ and published 1805-10. Provenance: with Spencer’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Bridlington, June 1971, where purchase...
The hill fort of Anchettidurgam.. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
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The hill fort of Anchitty Droog. Inscribed: ‘ Achitty Droog on the backing sheet.’ Pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour; 368 x 463 mm. Provenance: With Thomas Crowe, Norwich, November 1972, where purchased for the William and Mildred Archer collection. Purchased with the assistance of ...
A small temple and choultry at Magadi (Karnataka) with Savandurga in the distnace.. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
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A small pagoda on a rock and a choultry at Magadi (Karnataka), with Savandurga in the distance. 334 by 493 mm. Inscribed: ‘A Pagoda at Magree A Pagoda at Magree in Mysore’ on the backing sheet. Note: In his ‘Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore’, pl. 4, Colebrooke published a view...
A temple at Magadi (Karnataka).. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
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A temple at Magadi (Karnataka). 290 by 469 mm. Note: The temple appears to be one of the abandoned temples which Colebrooke writes about in the text accompanying pl. 4 of the ‘Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore’ of 1794. In the distance may be seen the upper part of the small pa...
Drawing of the Sati Chaura ghat at Kanpur, 1843. Artist(s): Satow, C.H. (fl. 1943)
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Drawing of the Sati Chaura ghat at Kanpur, 1943. Pencil; 203 by 276 mm. Inscribed: ‘The Massacre Ghat, Caawnpore, as viewed from river. River Ganges. C.H. Satow Nov. 43.’ Presented by Jonathan Satow in accordance with the will of Michael G. Satow, along with MSS Eur F290, 2000.
