‘Colonel D’arcy Drawings Made During the Embassy to Persia 1810–12’ by Joseph D’Arcy (1780–1846)
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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.
Inscribed on reverse: 'A ‘Ghyong’ or Buddhist Temple, named ‘Changrassie’, at Keerung, May 1855. A ‘Ghyong’ is a Temple as distinguished from a ‘Goompa’ which is a monastery, or Lamaserai', with notes. Artist(s): Oldfield, Henry Ambrose (1822-1871)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘A ‘Ghyong’ or Buddhist Temple, named ‘Changrassie’, at Keerung, May 1855. A ‘Ghyong’ is a Temple as distinguished from a ‘Goompa’ which is a monastery, or Lamaserai’, with notes Water-colour; 28 by 38.3 cm
'The North Pass of Aden or Baab el Yemen. Inside' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
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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...
'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...
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
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Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
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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...
'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...
