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)
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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...
Album containing 17 satirical drawings on the treatment of Tayler at the hands of Sir Frederick Halliday, Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, and other officials, along with newspaper cuttings relating to the affair. Artist(s): Tayler, William (1808-1892)
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Album (ff.1-28) containing satirical drawings on the treatment of Tayler by Sir Frederick Halliday, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and other officials, along with newspaper cuttings relating to the affair. Water-colour, drawings various sizes, laid down with inscriptions in Tayler’s hand on the...
Album of 79 miscellaneous drawings in the southern Deccan, including Vijayanagar, Bellary, Kurnool etc. Artist(s): Morant, James (1809-1858)
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Drawings dated between 1851 and 1856 mounted in no particular order. Inscriptions on album pages in another hand repeating Morant’s own inscriptions on reverse of drawings where visible.Various media; album size 30 by 23.5 cm.Purchased 1986.f.1v Gateway at Vijayanagar.Water-colour.f.2 Gateway to ...
Album of drawings (ff.1-46) made in 1833 while Phillips was a supernumerary Second-Lieutenant at Dum Dum. Mostly views, some covering a trip through the Sunderbans to Dacca, in pencil or water-colour, a few removed, leaving inscriptions. Most of the temples he drew on the trip are no longer extant.
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Mostly views, some covering a trip through the Sunderbans to Dacca, in pencil or water-colour, a few removed, leaving inscriptions. Most of the temples he drew on the trip are no longer extant.