Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of Jibel el Teer (Jabal al-Tair Island), a roughly oval-shaped volcanic island northwest of the Bab el-Mandab strait in the Red Sea. Two raised peaks are illustrated at the centre of the island, whi...
‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:
Genre & Subject Matter As well as four photographs, stamps, seals, printed documents, handwritten texts, maps and letters, this album contains fifty-one pencil, watercolour or pen and ink drawings; eight created while Augustus Fortunatis Bellasis was Collector and Magistrate at Hyderabad (S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume
‘Aden 11. June going out of Harbour’ and ‘Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube. 16 June 1856’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject matter Two pencil sketches on paper. The sketch on recto, sketched from on board ship, shows a landscape scene looking inland from the harbour at Aden. The range of hills or mountains in the background probably indicate Jebel Shamsan, or the Shamsan Range, often referred to as ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
2 pencil drawings on one sheet of paper, pasted into volume
Marriage settlement between John Bebb of Calcutta, Senior Merchant in the Civil Service of the East India Company, and Jennett Lawrence Kinloch of Calcutta, widow of John Kinloch, late a Senior Merchant, and Hon. Charles Stuart of Calcutta, a Member of the Supreme Council of the East India Compan...
Probate of will (1842) of David Carmichael Smyth, Bengal Civil Service 1815-c38; testamentary papers (1843) of Capt Thomas Wood, Madras Army; and marriage settlement (1869) of Thomas Owen, proctor of Calcutta High Court, and Isabella Parker.
Letters of administration, with copy of will, codicil and memorandum granted to The Rev. Horatio Montagu, clerk, of the goods of Thomas Wood, late Captain in the Corps of Engineers, in the service of the Hon. East India Company on the Madras Establishment.
Probate of the will of David Carmichael Smyth, late of Calcutta, Senior Merchant in the service of the Hon. East India Company on their Bengal Establishment.
