View of Fort St George from The Island across the Cooum river, with shipping in the roads beyond. Within the fort is Government House flying the Union-flag and St Mary’s Church, without the spire added in 1796
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View of Fort St. George from The Island across the Cooum river, with shipping in the roads beyond. Within the fort is Government House flying the Union-flag and St. Mary’s Church, without the spire added in 1796. In the foreground a mounted officer is reviewing a company of sepoys of the 8th M...
Cantonment bungalows and fort, Bhuj. Artist(s): Parr, Harriet (fl. 1850-1852)
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Cantonment bungalows and fort, Bhuj. Inscribed: ‘Bhooj. H.P. 1852’. Pencil and water-colour heightened with white; 27.5 by 38.3 cm. Purchased 1974 together with a drawing of their bungalow by an Indian artist, see Add.Or.3806 and a plan by Harriet Parr, Add.Or.3807.
Fort seen from Ahalya Bai ghat, Maheshwar, Indore. Artist(s): Abbott, Sir James (1807-1896)
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Fort seen from Ahalya Bai ghat, Maheshwar, Indore. ‘Maheswa Castle from Ghaut of Ahilia Bae on the Narbudda. From nature by Maj. Genl. James Abbott 1835’. Pencil and ink; 46.2 by 57.7 cm. Note: Maheshwar was the capital of the Holkars until 1738. Ahalya Bai (d.1795), whose ‘chhattri’ is on ...