Non-photographic: Original watercolour by a South Indian artist showing a man from Coorg (Kodagu), side view, wearing a dark coat and drawing a bow, 1850s-60s.
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Catalogue reference: Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 58, number 36(iii).
Non-photographic: Original watercolour of a Gyeiko man and woman at Tonghoo, Burma, 1866, by Henry Strachan Elton, 16th Madras Native Infantry.
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The painting was displayed at the Paris International Exhibition of 1867. See Patricia Kattenhorn, 'British drawings in the India Office Library' (vol. 3, London 1994), p. 140.
Portrait of Dr Alexander Hunter (b. 1816), Madras Medical Service. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, showing Hunter seated at a table reading. Hunter was Superintendent of the Madras School of Industrial and, himself an accomplished photographer, was responsible for training Indian pupils in photography. He may well, therefore, have supervised ...
Portrait of Mrs Alexander Hunter. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated beside a table and looking off to the left. Mrs Hunter was the wife of Alexander Hunter of the Madras Medical Service (see print 4541).