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Reference (shelfmark):: WD4546
Title:: Portrait of Jang Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: Portrait of Jang Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850-1851
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4547
Title:: Farran, Kate Madeline (fl.1913); Scrapbook album containing drawings of social and army life, as invitations and programmes
Scope & Content:: Scrapbook album containing drawings of social and army life, including a dance and garden party at Viceregal Lodge, the Simla summer races, various sporting events, a dance at the club at Rawalpindi, Christmas festivities at Lahore, shooting competitions, Sipi Fair, polo tournament in Delhi, Gol...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1913-14
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4548
Title:: Portrait of Jawan Bakht. Artist(s): Humphry, Ozias (1742-1810)
Scope & Content:: Portrait of Jawan Bakht. Oval head and shoulders portrait of the Mughal prince, Jawan Bakht, son of the Emperor Shah 'Alam II, by Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). Watercolour on ivory (9.5 by 7.5 cm.) surrounded by an oval mahogany frame. See Archer, Mildred. 'India and British Portraiture 1770-18...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4549
Title:: Portrait of Loveday Marian Murray (d.1901), wife of Dr. John Murray, Simla, 1842. Artist(s): Melville, William (fl. 1830-1847)
Scope & Content:: Oil, contained in plush-lines calf case, upper cover lettered 'Simla 1842.' Bust-length portrait of Loveday Marian Murray in three quater profile. Mrs. Murray (d. 1901) was the wife of Dr. John Murray, the celebrated photographer known for his
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4550
Title:: Portrait of Dr. John Murray, Simla, 1842. . Artist(s): Melville, William (fl. 1830-1847)
Scope & Content:: Oil, contained in plush-lines calf case, upper cover lettered 'Simla 1842.' Bust-length portrait of Dr. John Murray in three quater profile. Dr. John Murray, Civil Surgeon at Agra and accomplished photographer who is known for his photographs of Agra, Mathura, Sikandra, and Fatehpur Sikri. Fur...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4551
Title:: View of the British settlement of Tappanooly, on the small island of Punchong Cacheel, Sumatra. Artist(s): Trapaud, Elisha (1750-1828), circle of
Scope & Content:: Inscribed below painting in ink: 'View of the Island of Ponchun Cacheel from the North East'; in pencil (incorrectly identified) as Edward Lear. On verso (incorrectly inscribed): 'Edward Lear Author of Nonsense Verses, etc.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4558
Title:: Portrait of the wife of Lt.-Col. William Brookes (1810-1864)
Scope & Content:: Portrait of the wife of Lt.-Col. William Brookes (1810-1864)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4560
Title:: Portrait of Henry Nicholetts (d. 1857)
Scope & Content:: Framed miniature portrait of Henry Nicholetts (d. 1857) Watercolour on paper, 53 x 39 mm Purchased February 2008 Henry Nicholetts, son of John Nicholetts of South Petherton, Somerset, and his wife Mary; brother of Gilbert Nicholetts (1826-79), Indian army officer (Lieut. 1848; Lieut Col. 1874...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4562
Title:: Behind the Screen at the Shadow Play. Artist(s): Couldrey, Oswald Jennings (1882-1959)
Scope & Content:: Oswald Couldrey's 'South Indian Hours' (1920) provides an account on a shadow puppet show he attendeded in Rajahmundry during the festival of Sri Rama Navami (pp. 138-42).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1909-1919
Extent:: 1 Item

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