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1. Mss Eur B265/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B265/1
Title:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
Scope & Content:
Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. ff.11-22 Views in France. f.31 Malta. Pencil. f.37 Pyramids and sph...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1850
Extent:
1 Item

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. WD1619

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1619
Title:
Album of 83 drawings; 80 of landscapes and antiquities in the northem Deccan, 2 portraits and 1 flower study made during a tour chiefly to Ellora, Rauza, Daulatabad, Aurangabad and Ajanta. September to November 1849
Scope & Content:
83 drawings (78 folios); 80 of landscapes and antiquities in the northem Deccan, 2 portraits and 1 flower study made during a tour chiefly to Ellora, Rauza, Daulatabad, Aurangabad and Ajanta. September to November 1849. A few sketches were made later, e.g. 1853. Many pages inscribed with titles...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1853
Extent:
1 album

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. WD3548

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3548
Title:
Sketch book with laid down drawings of views and portraits made between 1843 and 1854 in Bombay and Sind, and during furlough in Europe. Also three later drawings made in Kathiawar and Savantvadi. Artist(s): Lester, John Frederick (1825-1915)
Scope & Content:
Sketch book (ff.1-40) with laid down drawings of views and portraits made between 1843 and 1854 in Bombay and Sind, and during furlough in Europe. Also three later drawings made in Kathiawar and Savantvadi. Cover lettered in gold: ‘Notes and Sketches 1844 to 1855’. Flyleaf inscribed with verses. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1876
Extent:
1 item

9. WD3549

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3549
Title:
Album with laid down watercolours made between 1865 and 1877 in Kathiawar, Bombay, Poona, Mahabaleshwar and Savantvadi State. Artist(s): Lester, John Frederick (1825-1915)
Scope & Content:
Album (ff.1-30) with laid down water-colours made between 1865 and 1877 in Kathiawar, Bombay, Poona, Mahabaleshwar and Savantvadi State. Cover lettered in gold: ‘Sketches’ and inscribed inside cover: ‘J.F. Lester’. Drawings various sizes; album 32.5 by 49 cm. f.1 ‘Veerawull, Kattywar. October 186...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1877
Extent:
1 item

10. WD3549(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3549(1)
Title:
Veerawull, Kattywar. October 1865. Artist(s): Lester, John Frederick (1825-1915)
Scope & Content:
f.1 ‘Veerawull, Kattywar. October 1865’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 item