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231. 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.

232. WD2479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2479
Title:
An album containing 409 drawings made in Delhi district, the Punjab, the Punjab States and on board ship. 1861-89, including portraits of named Indians and Europeans and miscellaneous scenes. Artist(s): Harcourt, Alfred Frederick Pollock (1836-1910)
Scope & Content:
An album containing 409 drawings (also 2 photographs, ff. 126, 127) made in Delhi district, the Punjab, the Punjab States and on board ship. 1861-89. Entitled: ‘Heads of the People.’ Inscribed on f.i: ‘Colonel A.F.P. Harcourt, his Drawings begun Delhi 1864’. ‘Rebound Streatley. 1900’; f.iiv in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1861-1889
Extent:
1 item

233. WD3089

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3089
Title:
Album of 40 drawings that appear to have been made during periods of duty in Central India and while on furlough and sick leave. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
Scope & Content:
f.1 Panhala fort, Kolhapur State. Inscribed: ‘The Gate of Panulla from ye outside CWC 1846’ and on reverse: ‘The Outside of the Western Gate at Penulla, here it was that all the hard fighting took place when the fort was stormed’. Below: ‘No.1. Exterior of the Western Gate of Penulla, a Mahratta ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1845-1851
Extent:
1 item

234. WD3198

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3198
Title:
Sketchbook of 47 views in India. Artist(s): Abbott, Sir James (1807-1896)
Scope & Content:
f.1 ‘Sacred fountain Kuttas Punjaub.’ f.2 ‘Tank in the Punjaub.’ f.3 ‘Castle of Sialkot Punjab, built by Raja Salivahana AD 84. Tradition records, that the S. East bastion continued to fall as fast as built until Salivahana immolated on the site the only son of a Widow.’ f.4 ‘Hindoo Temple at Toh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1826-1858
Extent:
1 item

235. 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.

236. 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

237. WD3479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3479
Title:
'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the verandah of Haines’s bungalow at Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbūţ] looking towards Little Aden. Haines sits facing away from the viewer at right, apparently sketching. His wife and another woman stand at centre in profile, looking out to sea. Several chairs, benches and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 watercolour and pencil drawing on paper

238. WD3526

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3526
Title:
'Aden from near the South Gate.' by Anon. (C.B.)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing

239. WD3527

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3527
Title:
'Gebel Shumshum. Aden from Ras Tarshayen.' by John Cumming Anderson (1825-70)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing

240. WD3533-3536

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3533-3536
Title:
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil, mostly incomplete, record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1834
Extent:
9 topographical views on four sheets of paper

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