Album with 58 watercolours, made while the artist was serving as Acting Collector and Joint Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1875 to 1877, and Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate, Cuddapah 1877 to 1878. Artist(s): Stuart, Andrew John (1841-1921)
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Album with fifty-eight water-colours, various sizes laid down, dated 1876 to 1878, made while the artist was serving as Acting Collector and Joint Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1875 to 1877, and Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate, Cuddapah 1877 to 1878.Album 31.3 by 38.3 cm.Inscriptions on the flyleaf i...
Album of 24 small watercolour views painted on cards with embossed borders. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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A letter pasted inside the front cover describes the contents of the album: ‘Chunar Novb. 3 1830. The accompanying book, My beloved Princess, which I have the honor to forward, needs no other passport for your acceptance than the assurance that the contents are from the hand of the far famed Draw...
`Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, and during a residence there, a tour through the Mysore and Tanjore countries...': professional manuscript copy, c1857, of illustrated journal, dated 1798-1801, by Charlotte Florentia Clive (later Duchess of Nothumberland) (1787-1866), daughter of 2nd Lord...
Drawings laid down in an album with paper covers inscribed: 'Unfinished Sepia Sketches R. Ganges, Calcutta & other parts of India'. As in WD4304 some of the drawings shed light on D’Oyly’s 'Views of Calcutta'. Artist(s): White, George Francis (1808-1898)
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Drawings laid down in an album (ff.1-24) with paper covers inscribed in ink over pencil: ‘Unfinished Sepia Sketches R. Ganges, Calcutta & other parts of India by Col. G.F. White’. Album 54 by 33 cm. The collection can be dated to 1842 by the inscription on the frontispiece drawing. As in WD43...
Humorous drawing. 'Who would have thought it. Tea toast & butter - fire place - mantelpiece - closed windows with real curtains & carpets in the Month of June in India & turnover'. On reverse: 'Ditto after Supper etc & all at 8000 feet above the sea'
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‘Who would have thought it. Tea toast & butter - fire place - mantelpiece - closed windows with real curtains & carpets in the Month of June in India & turnover.’ On reverse: ‘Ditto after Supper etc etc & all at 8000 feet above the sea.’