Trooper, 1st Life Guards, c.1815. Painted 1952. Inscribed: ‘HWB. 1952’ and on reverse ‘1 Life Guards. Waterloo period’. Pen and ink and water-colour; 29.2 by 23 cm. Found in the papers of Edward Vibart, Mss Eur F135, presented by Mrs. A. Farmiloe, 1967.
Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram. Artist(s): Dibdin, Thomas Colman (1810-1893)
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Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram, c.1845. Wash heightened with white; 33.3 by 24 cm. Purchased 1967. Note: A drawing by Dibdin for his lithograph reproduced in J. Fergusson ‘Illustrations of the rock cut temples of India’, London, 1845, plate 17. Dibdin’s drawings were worked...
Copy of EIC Arms. Artist(s): Baker, F.A. (fl. 1880)
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Copy of EIC Arms. Inscribed: ‘Copy of Grant of Arms to the East India Company. Dated 13 Oct. 1698. F.A. Baker’. Water-colour with ink; 27.2 by 34.6 cm. Details of acquisition unrecorded, formerly F721.
Inscribed on reverse: 'Our house at Indiki'. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer (1850-1924)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘Our house at Indiki. 17.10.93 HMD’. Water-colour; 12.5 by 20.3 cm. Note: For his time at Indiki see letter to Lord Roberts, 27 November 1893, Mss Eur D727/4.
DURAND, Sir HENRY MORTIMER (1850-1924) Bengal Civil Service and Foreign Service. Political Secretary to Lord Roberts during Kabul Campaign, 1879. Fo ...
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DURAND, Sir HENRY MORTIMER (1850-1924) Bengal Civil Service and Foreign Service. Political Secretary to Lord Roberts during Kabul Campaign, 1879. Foreign Secretary in India 1884-94. Led mission to Amir of Afghanistan, 1893. Minister at Teheran 1894-1900; Ambassador at Madrid 1900-8; Ambassador ...
Mrs Gladstone Lingham reading under a punkah in a comfortably furnished room at Berhampore.
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A woman reading under a punkah in a comfortably furnished room. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Mrs Gladstone Lingham’s drawing room at her residence in Berhampore, 1863’. Water-colour; 20 by 31.5 cm.