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4491. NHD53

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD53
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
Unspecified

4492. NHD54

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD54
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original binding and covers for NHD54. See individual records for NHD54/1-53 for contents. On inside cover inscribed in Latin: 'This book contains sixty pictures'. Also inscribed: 'Wan Teheun' (perhaps name of artist or patron?). Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. O...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4493. NHD55

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD55
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD55. See individual entries for NHD55/1-47 for contents. Inscribed on the inner back cover in pencil (in Latin): 'This book contains fifty pictures'. Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations compr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4494. NHD56

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD56
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD56. See individual entries for NHD56/1-56 for contents. No inscriptions. Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations comprising in all 309 water-colour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering sh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4495. NHD56/54

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD56/54
Title:
Chinese redbud. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Chinese redbud Cercis chinensis Bunge; Fabaceae family Original inscriptions: 紫荆(front lower left in ink); 三月開 (reverse lower left in ink); Tzeu-king (reverse lower right in pencil) Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink) Woody, greyish branch, mostly glaborous, with a cluster...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4496. NHD57

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57
Title:
Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
Scope & Content:
Original covers and binding of NHD57. See individual entries for NHD57/1-48 for contents. Inscribed on inner back cover: 'Wan Teheun' (perhaps name of artist or patron?). Individual watercolours removed from original covers in 2014. One of six volumes of plant illustrations comprising in all ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4497. NHD58

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD58
Title:
Arabian Coffee
Scope & Content:
Single drawing from the collection of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859). Elphinstone served with the East India Company from 1795 to 1827, ending his career as Governor of Bombay 1819 to 1827. He was a great scholar and keenly interested in the flora of India. The present drawing was part of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1827
Extent:
1 Item

4498. NHD59

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD59
Title:
Red Avadavat (a pair, on a branch). Artist(s): Ram Das (fl. 1777-1782)
Scope & Content:
Red Avadavat (a pair, on a branch) ‘Amandava amandava’ Original inscriptions: [Inscribed on front in nastaliq] ‘La‘l o munya’. [in English] ‘In the collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta. Painted by Ram Das Native of Patna’ [in nastaliq] ‘Ramdas.’ [inscribed on back of mount: ‘Amaduvade Finch. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1777-1782
Extent:
1 Item

4499. NHD60

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60
Title:
NHD60 Two drawings of plants, part of a large set belonging to Major James Nathaniel Rind (? - 1814). By a Calcutta artist, c.1790-1800. Gouache: 25.7 ...
Scope & Content:
NHD60 Two drawings of plants, part of a large set belonging to Major James Nathaniel Rind (? - 1814). By a Calcutta artist, c.1790-1800. Gouache: 25.75by 17.75 in (654 by 451 mm). From the collection of W.G. and M. Archer. Purchased 1978. NOTE: The series may well have been specially commi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1789-1800
Extent:
2 items

4500. NHD60/1

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60/1
Title:
Unidentified plant, perhaps a botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.
Scope & Content:
Unidentified plant Inscribed on back: ‘JNR 26’ NOTE : Exhibited American Federation of Arts 1978-79. See S.C. Welch 1978. pl.l2c ‘A Botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item