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141. Foster 849

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 849
Title:
Half length portrait to left of Bhairo Raghunath Mehendale, diplomatic agent to the Peshwa at Poona. Artist(s): Wales, James (1747-1795)
Scope & Content:
Half length portrait to left of Bhairo Raghunath Mehendale, diplomatic agent to the Peshwa at Poona.. Artist(s): Wales, James (1747-1795)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 Item

142. Foster 850

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 850
Title:
Portrait of Col. John Baillie, Bengal Army, three-quarter length seated, facing right, his left arm resting on a copy of 'Primitiae orientales'. Artist(s): Morris, Thomas (1772-1820)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Captain John Baillie, Professor of Arabic at the College of Fort William, three-quarter length seated, facing right, his left arm resting on a copy of ‘Primitiae orientales’. In Bengal Army uniform of red jacket with dark blue or black facings, gold lace and epaulette and wearing po...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
1 Item

143. Foster 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 851
Title:
View up Old Court House Street towards St Andrew’s Church, Calcutta. Artist(s): Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)
Scope & Content:
View up Old Court House Street towards St. Andrew’s Church, 1819-20. Oil on canvas, 58 by 84 cms. Purchased 1988. Literature: M. Archer and T. Falk ‘India Revealed: the Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801-35,’ London, 1989; J.P. Losty, ‘Calcutta City of Palaces’ (London, 1990)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1820
Extent:
1 Item

144. Foster 852

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 852
Title:
Half-length portrait of James Weir Hogg, to front, dressed in dark coat and white stock, against a dark red curtain. Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of James Weir Hogg, to front, dressed in dark coat and white stock, against a dark red curtain, c.1820-5. Oil on canvas; 75 by 62 cms. Purchased 1989. James Weir Hogg (1790-1876) practised at the Calcutta Bar from 1814-22, and was Registrar of the Supreme Court from 1822-...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1825
Extent:
1 Item

145. Foster 853

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 853
Title:
North side of Kaitee hill near Ootacamund, with Toda huts and villagers. Artist(s): Barron, Richard (c.1798-1838)
Scope & Content:
North side of Kaitee hill near Ootacamund, with Toda huts and villagers, 1835. Inscribed on reverse, now relined: ‘North side of Kaitee Hill Ootacamund Neigherries. R.Barrron. No.13.’ Oil on canvas, 45 by 60 cms. Purchased 1989. Barron spent a short while in the Nilgiri Hills in 1835, and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1835
Extent:
1 Item

146. Foster 854

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 854
Title:
Self portrait. A small half-length portrait, the subject gazing over his spectacles, his right hand holding a ‘hookah-snake’ and the left his artist’s palette. Artist(s): Zoffany, Johann (1733-1810)
Scope & Content:
Self portrait, c.1800-5. A small half-length portrait, the subject gazing over his spectacles, his right hand holding a ‘hookah-snake’ and the left his artist’s palette. A chair-back appears behind him, so that he is apparently painting seated, but his easel is out of view. On the wall behind...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

147. Foster 864

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 864
Title:
Barrackpore House from upriver, the view dominated by the flagtower, the semaphore tower and the circular pavilion, with, in the distance, Lord Minto’s Memorial Hall and Barrackpore House. Artist(s): Smith, Robert (1787-1873)
Scope & Content:
Barrackpore House from upriver, the view dominated by the flagtower, the semaphore tower and the circular pavilion, with, in the distance, Lord Minto’s Memorial Hall and Barrackpore House. The view shows the enlargements to Barrackpore House undertaken by Lord Moira in 1814-5, but not the rail...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1819
Extent:
1 Item

148. Foster 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 865
Title:
A scene in Eastern India, a hillock surmounted by a ruinous tomb in which a banyan has taken root, a river and hills in the distance. Artist(s): Smith, Robert (1787-1873)
Scope & Content:
A scene in Eastern India, a hillock surmounted by a ruinous tomb in which a banyan has taken root, a river and hills in the distance. With its melancholy landscape and subject, this suggests that Smith had seen some of Chinnery’s work, and he may indeed have taken some lessons from him in paint...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1819
Extent:
1 Item

149. Foster 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 866
Title:
Boats on the River Ganges with the Rajmahal Hills beyond. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
Scope & Content:
Boats on the River Ganges with the Rajmahal Hills beyond, c.1825. Oil on canvas; 20.5 by 27 cms. This is one of a group of eight paintings in oils, of slightly varying sizes, but arranged into two groups of four oils each in matching frames, from the collections of the Macnab of Macnab, all so...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

150. Foster 868

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 868
Title:
Three-quarter length portrait of Percy Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Bombay Political Service. Artist(s): Milbanke, Mark Richard (1875-1927)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Percy Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Bombay Political Service, 1909. He wears the I.P.S. uniform with the C.S.I. insignia, and stands before a draped curtain with an Indian architectural background beyond. Originally a small full-length standing portrait, it has been cut down to three-q...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 Item