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‘Colonel D’arcy Drawings Made During the Embassy to Persia 1810–12’ by Joseph D’Arcy (1780–1846)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains fifty-eight watercolour landscape views of locations visited during the Ouseley embassy to Persia, 1810–12, as well as two handlists, probably created by later owner F. G. McCutcheon c. 1880, two notes from The Graphic magazine to McCutcheon and a newspa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-12
Extent:
Album of 58 watercolour drawings of views of Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, mostly made during the Ouseley embassy to Tehran (1810–12), 1 newspaper cutting, 2 notes and 2 handlists (c. 1880) lightly tipped into a leather-bound album.
Album of 79 miscellaneous drawings in the southern Deccan, including Vijayanagar, Bellary, Kurnool etc. Artist(s): Morant, James (1809-1858)
Scope & Content:
Drawings dated between 1851 and 1856 mounted in no particular order. Inscriptions on album pages in another hand repeating Morant’s own inscriptions on reverse of drawings where visible.Various media; album size 30 by 23.5 cm.Purchased 1986.f.1v Gateway at Vijayanagar.Water-colour.f.2 Gateway to ...
Album of drawings (ff.1-46) made in 1833 while Phillips was a supernumerary Second-Lieutenant at Dum Dum. Mostly views, some covering a trip through the Sunderbans to Dacca, in pencil or water-colour, a few removed, leaving inscriptions. Most of the temples he drew on the trip are no longer extant.
Scope & Content:
Mostly views, some covering a trip through the Sunderbans to Dacca, in pencil or water-colour, a few removed, leaving inscriptions. Most of the temples he drew on the trip are no longer extant.
Album with 58 watercolours, made while the artist was serving as Acting Collector and Joint Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1875 to 1877, and Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate, Cuddapah 1877 to 1878. Artist(s): Stuart, Andrew John (1841-1921)
Scope & Content:
Album with fifty-eight water-colours, various sizes laid down, dated 1876 to 1878, made while the artist was serving as Acting Collector and Joint Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1875 to 1877, and Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate, Cuddapah 1877 to 1878.Album 31.3 by 38.3 cm.Inscriptions on the flyleaf i...
`Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, and during a residence there, a tour through the Mysore and Tanjore countries...': professional manuscript copy, c1857, of illustrated journal, dated 1798-1801, by Charlotte Florentia Clive (later Duchess of Nothumberland) (1787-1866), daughter of 2nd Lord...
Album of 29 drawings of views in Kathiawar State. Artist(s): H., H. (fl. 1871-1874)
Scope & Content:
An album of 29 drawings, various sizes, some on tinted paper, in water-colour over pencil, laid down in random order. Most are dated, the earliest being January1871 and the latest June 1874, and all but four are signed with the initials HH. The drawings are of views in Kathiawar State, which woul...
Miscellaneous letters and other material connected with Robert Home and his family. Artist(s): Home, Robert (1752-1834), and others
Scope & Content:
p>Miscellaneous letters and other material connected with Robert Home and his family. Bequeathed by E.P. Westby Esq., along with WD4426-4431, and F888 (Robert Home's miniature painting cabinet). 1. Recipe book, with index, of oils, colours, varnishes etc, written in Robert Home’s hand. ff1...
Sketchbook of 23 drawings and watercolours documenting a journey from Calcutta to Ghazipur (Bihar) in the winter of 1849.
Scope & Content:
Small artist sketchbook containing both pen and ink drawings and drawings coloured with watercolour. Folios are annotated with both captions, as well as the artist's notes regarding colour and commentary about the views. The views document his/her journey from Calcutta along the Hoogly and up th...
War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
Scope & Content:
Source material used for making and revising maps, or created in the course of map production. Supporting the topographical intelligence requirements of the United Kingdom government and armed forces, the archive primarily comprises cartographic items including sketch maps done by intelligence of...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1955
Extent:
400 map trays and 150 boxes of foolscap pages, approximately
