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1. WD4283

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4283
Title:
Busy riverside scene, Calcutta, with a new civil servant being carried ashore. His boxes are being piled up on the bank and a palanquin awaits him. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Busy riverside scene with a civil servant being carried ashore. His boxes are being piled up on the bank and a palanquin awaits him. Inscribed: ‘The landing of a griffen at Calcutta. WP. Sep. 1822’. Pen and ink with water-colour; 16.5 by 24.3 cm Purchased 1992.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 Item

2. WD303

Reference (shelfmark):
WD303
Title:
Album of 78 drawings and 2 lithographs of miscellaneous subjects drawn in India and Europe. c.1819-30. Includes drawings by Arthur William Devis and George Chinnery. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874), and others
Scope & Content:
f.1 A fancy-dress party probably in Calcutta. f.2 A garden party, probably in Calcutta, 1824. f.3 A lance bearer. f.4 ‘Ravenshaw. After Nicholson W.P. July, 1825.’ f.5 A country boat by a ghat, probably in Bengal. f.6 Amateur theatricals including ‘W.P., A.P., Luard, Armstron...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1819-1830
Extent:
1 Item

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