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

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3752
Title:: Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir. Artist(s): Rattray, James (1818-1854)
Scope & Content:: Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir, 1840s. Inscribed in Kashmiri script: ‘Umgiri Vaishnumanova’. Water-colour; 28.7 by 41.2 cm. Purchased 1979 from a collection belonging to descendants of his family.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3753
Title:: View of Fort St George from the south. Artist(s): Robertson, John (b. 1762)
Scope & Content:: View of Fort St. George from the south c.1781. Inscribed: ‘Fort St George’ repeated on reverse. Water-colour; 37.2 by 76 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: The drawing was one of a group of views of Fort St. George formerly belonging to Lord Macartney, one of which was inscribed: ‘Ino Robertson Delt....
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1781
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3754
Title:: Inscribed on reverse: 'Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847'. Artist(s): Cobbe, Charles Power (b. 1823)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed on reverse: ‘Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847 CPC’. Water-colour; 24.5 by 34 cm. Purchased 1979 . Note: The 8th Foot was stationed at Poona and Bombay from 1846 to 1848.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3755
Title:: View of the interior of Fort William Calcutta looking east across the courtyard towards Chowringhee Gate and Chowringhee Road. The Regency gothic church of St Peter is on the left. To the right is the pedimented old Government House in the fort. Artist
Scope & Content:: View of the interior of Fort William ‘c.’1828 looking east across the courtyard towards Chowringhee Gate and Chowringhee Road. The Regency gothic church of St. Peter, started in 1822 and consecrated in 1828, is on the left. To the right is the pedimented old Government House in the fort, the G...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3756
Title:: Akbar’s mausoleum, Sikandra, Agra, from the north. Artist(s): Hislop, William (d. 1829)
Scope & Content:: Akbar’s mausoleum, Sikandra, Agra, from the north. Water-colour; 32.5 by 50.7 cm. Purchased 1979.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1820s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3757
Title:: Entrance gateway to St Thomas’s Mount, Madras. Artist(s): George, James (1782-1828)
Scope & Content:: Entrance gateway to St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras. Inscribed: ‘Madras. J. George. May 1811’. Water-colour; 35.5 by 54 cm. Purchased 1979.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3758
Title:: Waterfall at Kutallam. Artist(s): Caldwell, James Lillyman (1770-1863)
Scope & Content:: Waterfall at Kutallam. Inscribed: ‘Coutallam’. Pencil and wash; 58.5 by 48 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: Tinnevelly was ceded to the Company in 1801 and surveys were carried out from 1806 onwards. Caldwell visited Kutallam during an inspection visit in 1810.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3759
Title:: 'Bishop’s College, Calcutta. March 12 1833'. Artist(s): Tucker, Henry Carre (1812-1875)
Scope & Content:: ‘Bishop’s College, Calcutta. March 12 1833. W.C. Tucker’. Wash; 23 by 23 cm. Purchased 1979.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1833
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3760
Title:: Half length portrait of an unidentified army officer. Artist(s): Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:: Half length portrait of an unidentified army officer. Inscribed: ‘Simla 26th August 1842. Pce. A. Soltykoff’. Pencil and wash; 23.4 by 18.5 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3760-3764, WD3823
Title:: SALTUIKOV, ALEKSYEI D., Prince (fl. 1840s) Traveller and author. See ‘Voyage dans L’Inde’, Paris, c.1848; ‘Lettres sur L’Inde’, Paris, 1848; ‘Voyages ...
Scope & Content:: SALTUIKOV, ALEKSYEI D., Prince (fl. 1840s) Traveller and author. See ‘Voyage dans L’Inde’, Paris, c.1848; ‘Lettres sur L’Inde’, Paris, 1848; ‘Voyages dans L’Inde et en Perse’, Paris, 1853; ‘Indian scenes and characters sketched from life’, London, 1858. The latter includes a self portrait at th...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840-1849
Extent:: 6 items

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