Collection Area: Visual Arts / Subject: Disasters - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1258(32)
Title:: Monsoon floods—Calcutta 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:: Showing cars, a rickshaw and pedestrians negotiating a flooded street in Calcutta.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 20(30)
Title:: [Ink Drawing titled] Mary of Sunderland.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in ink; 'Mary of Sunderland[?] Nov. 1840'. An ink sketch of a sailing ship in the midst of a storm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD314
Title:: Album of 31 drawings, 10 of which were made during a visit to Ceylon and India, 1858. Animal subjects, landscapes and seascapes. Artist(s): Jesse, George Richard (fl. 1858-1874)
Scope & Content:: 31 drawings (33 folios), 10 of which (listed below) were made during a visit to Ceylon and India, 1858. Animal subjects, landscapes and seascapes. Some drawings signed and inscribed with titles in ink and pencil. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume, 10 by 14 ins; drawings approximat...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1858
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4244
Title:: Calcutta from the Strand during the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Artist(s): Armstrong, John Arthur (b. 1840)
Scope & Content:: Calcutta from the Strand during the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Inscribed: ‘J. Armstrong 1864’. On original album page: ‘Calcutta ‘The Strand’ October 5th 1864’. 24.5 by 34.5 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 Item

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