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Project / Collection Natural History Drawings Language Not applicable Level [32] Fonds

1. NHD1/1-31, NHD2/285, NHD2/300-302

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD1/1-31, NHD2/285, NHD2/300-302
Title:
NHD1/1-31; NHD2/285; NHD2/300-302 Marsden Collection 39 drawings from the collections formed by William Marsden (1754-1836) between 1784 and 1808 for ...
Scope & Content:
NHD1/1-31; NHD2/285; NHD2/300-302 Marsden Collection 39 drawings from the collections formed by William Marsden (1754-1836) between 1784 and 1808 for a third edition (London, 1811) of the ‘Historv of Sumatra’. (For Marsden, see Archer's Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, pp....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1784-1808
Extent:
35 items

2. NHD1/32-75

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD1/32-75
Title:
NHD1/32-75 Heyne Collection Forty-four drawings in pen-and-ink and watercolour (4 unfinished) depicting Indian birds, bound in a volume measuring 21 ...
Scope & Content:
NHD1/32-75 Heyne Collection Forty-four drawings in pen-and-ink and watercolour (4 unfinished) depicting Indian birds, bound in a volume measuring 21 by 14 inches. These drawings were collected sometime between 1793 and 1813 in South India by Dr. Benjamin Heyne (?-1819) while he was Company's ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1793-1813
Extent:
44 items

3. NHD1/76-172

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD1/76-172
Title:
NHD1/76-172 Ninety-seven drawings in watercolour, pencil, and pen-and-ink depicting 48 birds, 46 mammals and 2 reptilia from Java; bound in a volume m ...
Scope & Content:
NHD1/76-172 Ninety-seven drawings in watercolour, pencil, and pen-and-ink depicting 48 birds, 46 mammals and 2 reptilia from Java; bound in a volume measuring 21 by 14 inches. Seventy of these drawings were probably made by Chinese artists in Java between 1811 and 1817, while the British were ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1798-1824
Extent:
98 items

4. NHD1/173-185, NHD8/1335-1371

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD1/173-185, NHD8/1335-1371
Title:
NHD1/173-185; NHD8/1335-1371 Two supplementary collections of natural history drawings from the Wellesley Collection. --------------------- NHD1/173- ...
Scope & Content:
NHD1/173-185; NHD8/1335-1371 Two supplementary collections of natural history drawings from the Wellesley Collection. --------------------- NHD1/173-185 Thirteen drawings in water-colour depicting 4 mammals, a limb, tusks etc. of musk deer, 1 bird and 7 reptilia from India; bound in a volume...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1798-1805
Extent:
13 items

5. NHD2/186-284

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/186-284
Title:
NHD2/186-284 The 'G & B' (Gibbons & Buchanan) Collection Ninety-nine drawings in laid down in an album of birds from India and the East Indies, in a ...
Scope & Content:
NHD2/186-284 The 'G & B' (Gibbons & Buchanan) Collection Ninety-nine drawings in laid down in an album of birds from India and the East Indies, in a collection formed under the supervision of Francis Buchanan (afterwards Buchanan-Hamilton) and William Lloyd-Gibbons. Drawings by variou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
99 items

6. NHD2/286-299

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/286-299
Title:
NHD2/286-299 Parry Collection Fourteen drawings in watercolour depicting 12 birds, 1 mammal and 1 fish from Sumatra; bound in a volume measuring 21 b ...
Scope & Content:
NHD2/286-299 Parry Collection Fourteen drawings in watercolour depicting 12 birds, 1 mammal and 1 fish from Sumatra; bound in a volume measuring 21 by 14 inches. These drawings were collected by Richard Parry (in the East 1793-1811) while Resident of Fort Marlborough (Bencoolen) in Sumatra be...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1811
Extent:
14 items

7. NHD2/303

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/303
Title:
Court Collection Northern House Gecko (possibly)
Scope & Content:
Court may be Captain H. Court, a Madras artillery officer who was in India from 1799 to May 1819, or Captain Charles Court of the Bombay Marine Service, in India 1789 to 1821. Court's collection of plant drawings was transferred to Kew in 1879 and this, NHD2/303, is the only drawing which has re...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

8. NHD2/305

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/305
Title:
European Goldfinch
Scope & Content:
European Goldfinch ‘Carduelis carduelis’ Original inscriptions:’ Carduelis caniceps Vigors. From Mr. Johnsons Collection of Mss. etc’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 272 by 218 mm. Note: If we can infer that the inscription refers to the collection of Richard Joh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

9. NHD2/306, 308 & 310

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/306, 308 & 310
Title:
NHD2/306, 308 & 310 Three drawings of c.1800-20 bear no inscriptions and cannot be accurately associated with any natural history collection. No.306 o ...
Scope & Content:
NHD2/306, 308 & 310 Three drawings of c.1800-20 bear no inscriptions and cannot be accurately associated with any natural history collection. No.306 on stylistic grounds may be part of the Gibbons and Buchanan Collection.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1821
Extent:
3 items

10. NHD2/307

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD2/307
Title:
Jungle Cat. Artist(s): Ward, Samuel Nevill (b.1813, fl. 1831-1863)
Scope & Content:
Jungle Cat ‘Felis chaus’ Original inscriptions: ‘From dead cat’ [plus many details on colouring, tail-length, etc.] Further inscriptions: ‘S.N. Ward. Canara.’ Artist: Samuel Nevill Ward Medium: Pencil and Watercolour Size: 212 by 165 mm. Note: Samuel Nevill Ward (b.1813, fl. 1831-63) was ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1837-1847
Extent:
1 Item