View of the hills near Coonoor. Artist(s): Canning, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1817-1861)
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View of the hills near Coonoor. Inscribed on mount: ‘Lambton Peaks, Paul Ghât etc.’ ‘et’c. ‘From the Coffee Plantation at Cartery. April 19, 1858’. Water-colour 33.5 by 54.5 cm. Note: Lady Canning spent April to June 1858 at Coonoor and Ootacamund after Lord Canning transferred the governme...
CANNING, Lady CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1817-1861) Elder daughter of Sir Charles Stuart, later Lord Stuart de Rothesay and Lady Elizabeth, ‘née’ Yorke. Ma ...
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CANNING, Lady CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1817-1861) Elder daughter of Sir Charles Stuart, later Lord Stuart de Rothesay and Lady Elizabeth, ‘née’ Yorke. Married the Hon. Charles John Canning 1835. Served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria from 1842 until her husband’s appointment as Governor...
The garden of the Cannings’ house at Allahabad. Artist(s): Canning, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1817-1861)
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The garden of the Cannings’ house at Allahabad. Inscribed on mount: ‘Garden of Government House at Allahabad, formerly called ‘Lowther Castle’. October 1858’. Water-colour 26 by 37.5 cm. Note: Lady Canning joined her husband at Allahabad in August 1858 where they remained until January 1859....
The new Mint on the Strand, Calcutta, from the south, with shipping beyond. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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The new Mint on the Strand, from the south, with shipping beyond, c.1829. Inscribed on album page: ‘Calcutta’ and’ New Mint Calcutta’. Water-colour; 18 by 25 cm. Note: The new Silver Mint, north of the present Howrah Bridge and designed by Major W.N. Forbes was formally opened in 1831. James...
Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’ c.1829. Inscribed on album page: ‘Calcutta, Noubruttun-Chitpoor Bazaar’. Water-colour; 18.5 by 21.8 cm. Note: The Black Pagoda, built in 1731 by Govindram Mitter, the ‘Black Zamindar’ (1720-56). In the view published by the Daniells, ‘Views of Calcutta’, 1786...
Circular Road, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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Circular Road, Calcutta, c.1827-8. Inscribed: ‘An unfinished sketch by Tom of the Circular Road; a mosque, a hakuree, a Kuranchee or hackney coach, a police tannah or station for chowkeydars’. Water-colour; 23 by 33 cm.
The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, with the city in the distance.. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, c.1827-8. Inscribed on album page: ‘Salt Water Lake. Hollowed date trees as canoes, The Sunderbund wood boats, Calcutta in extreme distance’. Water-colour; 17.5 by 32.5 cm. Note: Prinsep published a ‘Survey of the Salt Lake or Marshe...
The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Inscribed on album page: ‘Ganges near Buglipoor’. Water-colour; 10 by 14.5 cm. Note: Thomas Prinsep was attached to the first experimental voyage, to Allahabad, of a wooden paddle steamer on the Ganges. The ‘...
