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141. Foster 576

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Foster 576
Title:
The Fortress of Gingee. In the centre is the Great Mountain (Rajagiri), crowned by a citadel. At the foot is the inner fort. Artist(s): Payne, George (c.1790-1820)
Scope & Content:
The Fortress of Gingee, Madras, 1816 A stronghold in the South Arcot District, about 80 miles south-west of Madras. In the centre of the picture is seen the Great Mountain (Rajagiri), a precipitous bluff some 600 feet high, crowned by a citadel. At the foot is the inner (principal) fort. On ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 Item

142. Foster 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 577
Title:
Rope bridge over the Alakananda river at Srinagar, Garhwal, UP.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
Scope & Content:
Rope bridge over the Alakananda river at Srinagar, Garhwal, U.P. Painted by Thomas Daniell, 1808. The old town (since washed away by floods from the bursting of the Gohna lake in 1904) occupies the centre of the picture, but is partially hidden by the rock in the foreground. It was once the c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

143. Foster 669

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 669
Title:
Landscape in northern India; a ruined temple with a domed mosque or tomb in the background and women at a well In the foreground. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
Scope & Content:
Landscape in northern India; a ruined temple with a domed mosque or tomb in the background and women at a well in the foreground. Painted by Thomas Daniell c.1820. Oil on canvas; 21.5 by 17 ins (54.5 by 43 cms). Presented by Sir William Foster, 1938. Literature: Shellim (1979), TD 102.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

144. 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:
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Date Range:
1819-1820
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:
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Date Range:
1835
Extent:
1 Item

146. 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:
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Date Range:
1815-1819
Extent:
1 Item

147. Foster 874

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 874
Title:
Villagers on a country road, Nasik, Western India. Artist(s): Howard, George James, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911)
Scope & Content:
Villagers on a country road, Nasik, Western India, 1891-2. Inscribed indistinctly on the reverse: ‘Nassick [...] India’ and in another hand: ‘This picture was painted by George Howard 9th Lord Carlisle in the winter 1891-92. It hung in his wife’s room at Castle Howard till April 1922 after whi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1891-1892
Extent:
1 Item

148. Foster 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 978
Title:
The mosque on the corner of Chowringhee Road and the Dhurrumtollah in Calcutta, completed by Prince Ghulam Muhammad in 1842, with the Dhurrumtollah Bazaar in front. A Kali-puja procession is in the foreground, as are various forms of conveyances.. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874), attributed to
Scope & Content:
PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874), attributed to For Prinsep’s water-colours, see PRINSEP, WILLIAM (1794-1874). His few known oil paintings seem to be the product of his years of retirement after 1842. This is probably an early example, earlier than such works as his view of Prinsep’s Ghat (‘The R...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840-1845
Extent:
1 Item

149. Foster 1036

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1036
Title:
View of Mercara, Coorg. Artist(s): Barron, Richard (c.1798-1838)
Scope & Content:
South view of the fort at Madikeri, Coorg, 1835. Oil on board; 30 by 45.5 cm. Purchased April 2001. Note: In 1812 Linga Rajendra of Coorg constructed a European style brick palace measuring 200 feet square inside the fort. The British took control of Madikeri in 1834. On the south side of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1835
Extent:
1 Item

150. IO Album 21,2054

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Album 21,2054
Title:
'Sketch in Baghdad'. Copied by a draughtsman in the Quartermaster-General’s Office, Mahabaleshwar, in November 1855, from an original by Jones. Artist(s): Jones, James Felix (1813-1878), after
Scope & Content:
‘Sketch in Baghdad’. 17.8 by 22.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

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