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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language English Subject Landscape drawing

1. Mss Eur F140/234/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F140/234/5
Title:
‘Aden – Oct 22nd /71’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter These two small watercolour drawings depict scenes taken from life at the Settlement of Aden in 1871. Both drawings focus on Arabs’ use of camels as a form of transport. In the left-hand drawing, four veiled women perch alongside one another atop a litter held in place on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1871
Extent:
2 drawings; watercolour and pencil on paper, pasted into volume

2. Mss Eur G45/10, f 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/10, f 102
Title:
‘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

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