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Reference (shelfmark):: WD4315
Title:: Standing ascetic wearing a dagger and carrying a small staff. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: Standing ascetic wearing a dagger and carrying a small staff. Pencil; 37 by 25 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4316
Title:: Standing ascetic holding a rosary. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:: Standing ascetic holding a rosary. Pencil; 36.5 by 25 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1791-1804
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4317, f.16va
Title:: One of the Envoy’s Servants equipped for the Road. From Brydges, An Account of the Transaction of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, facing p.3.. Artist(s): Picken, Andrew (1815-1845), after Sutherland, James (1784-1850)
Scope & Content:: ‘One of the Envoy’s Servants equipped for the Road. Sketched from Life by Sir J. Sutherland. On stone by A. Picken. Printed by J. Netherclift’. Note: From Brydges, ‘An Account of the Transaction of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia’, facing p.3. Lieutenant James Su...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4376
Title:: 'The Tailor Adalji Ghadiali of Bombay'. Artist(s): Van Ruith, Horace (1839-1923)
Scope & Content:: ‘The Tailor Adalji Ghadiali of Bombay. Horace Van Ruith’. Water-colour and bodycolour; 50.8 by 65.8 cm. Purchased 1994.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4380
Title:: Building work on the drainage tunnel from the Machhodri tank to the river. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
Scope & Content:: Building work on the drainage tunnel from the Machhodri tank to the river, 1826. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Commencement of the Tunnel near Trilochun Ghat’. Water-colour; 26.6 by 17.6 cm. Purchased 1993. Note: See WD4276 for map of the area and proposed site of the drain and WD4277 for map and c...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1826
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4393
Title:: Small sketchbook of 79 miscellaneous drawings, mainly figure studies. Artist(s): Eden, William (c.1768-1851)
Scope & Content:: Small album (ff.1-108) in brown leather cover with brass clasp. Inside the back cover are accounts of Java prize money, including ‘cash in hand £364000’ and ‘Guns & Military stores £145000.’ Col. William Eden was QMG during the Java Campaign. Album 11 by 13.5 cm. f.1v Detail of Bengal ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1810s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4401
Title:: Scrapbook containing engravings, maps, watercolours and drawings by a number of artists, including Sir Charles D’Oyly and Sita Ram. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
Scope & Content:: Scrapbook (ff.1-73) containing engravings, maps, water-colours and drawings by a number of artists, including Sir Charles D’Oyly and Sita Ram, laid down on tinted paper interleaved with paper watermarked 1811. Album in tan leather covers, with a brass clasp, measuring 20.5 by 26.3cm. f.1 Fou...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1810s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4402
Title:: Scrapbook in green leather covers with gold stamped decoration, containing watercolours, pencil drawings, engravings, maps and Company drawings. Various artists including Sir Charles D'Oyly and Sita Ram. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and
Scope & Content:: Scrapbook (ff.1-141) in green leather covers with gold stamped decoration, containing water-colours, pencil drawings, engravings, maps and Company drawings laid down on lightweight cream paper watermarked 1814. A scrap from an inventory describing ‘Seven sketchbooks (?) the work of Lady Flora ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1810s-1820s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4403
Title:: Scrapbook containing pencil drawings and watercolours by various artists, including Sir Charles D'Oyly, some probably collected when Lord Hastings returned to Europe. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845), and others
Scope & Content:: Scrapbook (ff.1-66) in cream leather covers, stamped in gold, containing pencil drawings and water-colours by various artists, some probably collected after the Hastings returned to Europe. The drawings are tipped on to buff paper, a few with inscriptions below or on the following page. Album...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1820s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4408
Title:: A landau drawn by two camels with a man and woman leaning back in the seat. Two grooms are mounted on the camels, a manservant and a maid sit at the front and two bearers with fly whisks stand behind. Artist(s): Gordon, Sir Thomas Edward (1832-1914)
Scope & Content:: A landau drawn by two camels with a man and woman leaning back in the seat. Two grooms are mounted on the camels, a manservant and a maid sit at the front and two bearers with fly whisks stand behind. Inscribed:’ Ready to start. Thos. E. Gordon. Wuzeerabad. August 1855.’ Water-colour and p...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

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