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1. Add MS 5141

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Add MS 5141
Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 5408

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Add MS 5408
Title:
Queen Elizabeth I's funeral procession
Scope & Content:
Original pen and ink drawing of Elizabeth I's funeral procession, 1603. It is attributed to William Camden, Clarenceaux herald: although he may not have been the artist, the hand recording the names of the figures resembles his. It includes the chariot drawn by four horses on which stood Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add Or 4817

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Add Or 4817
Title:
The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid. Lady Hastings' party in the foreground. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
Scope & Content:
The entrance courtyard and east facade to the Kalan Masjid with its vertiginous flight of steps to the entrance gateway. A group of elephants, soldiers and retainers in the foreground.Inscribed below: ‘Another view of the same to the West,’ with an illegible pencil inscription along the bottom un...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815
Extent:
1 item

4. P983

Reference (shelfmark):
P983
Title:
Danse Cachemirienne. Environs de Simla dans l’Himalaya (Aoûut 1842). [Dancers and musicians in woodland before the temple seen in close-up in P984.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of a 'Cashmiri dance' in front of a temple near Simla by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of August 1842 by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov.Prince Saltuikov's voyage of the Himalayas in September 1842 commenced at Shimla. This hill-station, now the capital of the s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 item

5. WD156(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(1)
Title:
Sufta Jungh’s [Safdar Jang] Tomb, Delhi. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 1. ‘Sufta Jungh’s Tomb, Delhi. Pencil drawing of the tomb of Safdar Jang at Delhi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item

6. WD156(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(2)
Title:
Mahore. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 2. Inscribed in pencil: 'Mahore'. Hill fort with camp in foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item

7. WD156(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(3)
Title:
Temple on an island, perhaps in the Ganges. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 3. Temple on an island, perhaps in the Ganges.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item

8. WD156(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(4)
Title:
Balgura. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 4. Inscribed in pencil and ink:‘Balgura.’ A Muslim burial ground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item

9. WD156(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(5)
Title:
1788. Sondalpur. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 5. Inscribed in pencil and ink:‘1788. Sondalpur.’ Pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing of a building with a classical facade in Sondalpur.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item

10. WD156(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD156(6)
Title:
River scene. Artist(s): Blunt, James Tillyer (1765-1834)
Scope & Content:
Folio 6. Inscribed in pencil and ink 'Gaut of Collygur on the Godavery. Ensign J. T. Blunt Eng. fecit. February 1795. Vide Asiatic Annual Register, A.D. 1800, Miscellaneous Tracts, p.128. River scene.' Watercolour drawing of a river scene. An account of this journey was printed in the 'Asi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788-1800
Extent:
1 item