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Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of Jibel Jan, which is likely to refer to Djebel Jan on the coast of latter-day Djibouti. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows a series of flat-topped islands leading away from the coa...
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of Jibel el Teer (Jabal al-Tair Island), a roughly oval-shaped volcanic island northwest of the Bab el-Mandab strait in the Red Sea. Two raised peaks are illustrated at the centre of the island, whi...
‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:
Genre & Subject Matter As well as four photographs, stamps, seals, printed documents, handwritten texts, maps and letters, this album contains fifty-one pencil, watercolour or pen and ink drawings; eight created while Augustus Fortunatis Bellasis was Collector and Magistrate at Hyderabad (S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume
‘Aden 11. June going out of Harbour’ and ‘Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube. 16 June 1856’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
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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
Dane Collection: 'Photographs of Lord Curzon's tour in the Persian Gulf, November, 1903'.
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Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains topographical views and photographs recording the tour of the Persian Gulf by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, undertaken to uphold British interests in the region. The prints are firmly mounted on embrittled card pages, which are disintegrating at the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1903
Extent:
25 b/w silver gelatin prints, bound into a green, cloth album
'Lord and Lady Curzon and Staff on the Tour [of the Persian Gulf].' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Group portrait photograph taken on board ship in November 1903, during Lord and Lady Curzon’s Tour of the Persian Gulf. Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925) and Lady Mary Victoria Curzon (1870-1906) sit at centre and immediately right ...
'R.I.M.S. Hardinge accompanying Ships of the Royal East Indian Squadron.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View showing R.I.M.S. Hardinge (at centre) accompanying ships of the Royal East Indian squadron on Lord Curzon's tour of the Persian Gulf in November 1903. At least seven craft – some steamers and at least one sailing boat – are visible along the horizon line. The precise ...
'General View from R.I.M.S. Hardinge, Maskat.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View of Muscat from on board R.I.M.S. Hardinge. This photograph was likely taken on or around 18 November 1903, the day that the fleet of ships participating in Lord Curzon’s tour of the Persian Gulf arrived at Muscat. Fort Al Jalali is visible along the horizon immediat...
'General View showing Inlet and Fort, Maskat.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View from on board ship of Inlet (isthmus), between the rocky island that shelters the bay of Muscat and Fort Al-Jalali. This photograph was probably taken on or around 18 November 1903, the day that the vessels of Lord Curzon’s tour of the Persian Gulf arrived at Muscat. ...
'End of Hill, showing Fort on Left, Maskat.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View of the rocky Muscat Island that protects the anchorage from the open sea. All across the face of the island names of British, Indian and other naval or merchant ships are painted in large, white letters along with some dates indicating visit. The Sultan reputedly refe...
