1657571. WD1259
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1657572. 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.
1657573. WD1478
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1478
- Title:
- Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1822-56
- Extent:
- Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England
1657574. WD1860-1875
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1860-1875
- Title:
- 16 drawings of various kinds of transport: bullock carts (WD1861-1864), raths (WD1865-1877), palanquins (WD1868-1870), tents (WD1871-1875), made in India between 1786 and 1793. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
- Scope & Content:
- 16 drawings of various kinds of transport: bullock carts (WD1861-1864), raths (WD1865-1877), palanquins (WD1868-1870), tents (WD1871-1875), made in India between 1786 and 1793. Pencil, and wash; various sizes Purchased 9 May 1962
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1786-1793
- Extent:
-
1 item
1657575. WD3110
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3110
- Title:
- Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1834-39
- Extent:
- Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album
1657576. WD3110, f 1a
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3110, f 1a
- Title:
- 'His Majesty’s experimental frigate Vernon drawn at sea Jany. 10th 1834 in Persian Gulf' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This detailed maritime scene shows the experimental frigate Vernon at sea in the Persian Gulf in January 1834. In the background high, white cliffs are visible at left. A smaller boat, perhaps a dhow, flies a red flag at left. The frigate flies a Red Ensign as well as a re...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 10 Jan 1834
- Extent:
- 1 watercolour drawing on paper
1657577. WD3110, f 63a
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3110, f 63a
- Title:
- ‘Aden. Port as seen on approach from Bombay' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This incomplete pencil sketch shows the harbour at Aden from on board ship. Jagged peaks – described as volcanic on the verso – line the horizon from left to right with two smaller spits of rock jutting into view at either side of the scene. A three-master is indicated a...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 3 Jun 1839
- Extent:
- 1 pencil drawing on paper
1657578. 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.
1657579. WD3332
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3332
- Title:
- Inscribed on reverse: 'A ‘Ghyong’ or Buddhist Temple, named ‘Changrassie’, at Keerung, May 1855. A ‘Ghyong’ is a Temple as distinguished from a ‘Goompa’ which is a monastery, or Lamaserai', with notes. Artist(s): Oldfield, Henry Ambrose (1822-1871)
- Scope & Content:
- Inscribed on reverse: ‘A ‘Ghyong’ or Buddhist Temple, named ‘Changrassie’, at Keerung, May 1855. A ‘Ghyong’ is a Temple as distinguished from a ‘Goompa’ which is a monastery, or Lamaserai’, with notes Water-colour; 28 by 38.3 cm
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Extent:
- 1 item
1657580. 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
