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1. Add Or 4783

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Add Or 4783
Title:
The ghats at Hardwar. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The ghats at Hardwar.Inscribed below: ‘Bathing place at Hurdwar.’375 by 542 mm.Watercolour of the ghats at Haridwar from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Mohumdy to Gheen Vol. V' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1814-1815
Extent:
1 item

2. Mss Eur B265/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B265/1
Title:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
Scope & Content:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. ff.11-22 Views in France. f.31 Malta. Pencil. f.37 Pyramids and sph...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. Mss Eur B265/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B265/2
Title:
An album of views, flower studies and miscellaneous drawings made in India between 1838 and 1850. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
Scope & Content:
An album with some blank folios of views, flower studies and miscellaneous drawings made between 1838 and 1850 by Mary Emma Walter née Coulthard (1816-1850), assorted sizes laid down, various media. In many cases the drawings are duplicated in her journal, Mss Eur B 265/1. ff.5-8 Views in Franc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD34

Reference (shelfmark):
WD34
Title:
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper

5. WD129

Reference (shelfmark):
WD129
Title:
'Cape Fartak on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

6. WD130

Reference (shelfmark):
WD130
Title:
'Ras Sharma on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

7. WD1240

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1240
Title:
'Muskat Harbour, Persian Gulf (Arabia).' by Norman Victor Lacey Rybot (1876-1961)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1915
Extent:
1 drawing

8. WD1348

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1348
Title:
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.

9. WD3274

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3274
Title:
‘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.

10. WD3475

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3475
Title:
'The North Pass of Aden or Baab el Yemen. Inside' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the ‘North Pass’, or Baab el Yemen, at Aden. This probably depicts a pass between the main British settlement at Crater and Khormakser. “Inside” may refer to the location the drawing depicts, or to the fact that it depicts the south side of the pass, i.e. within th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper