View of Madras looking south from the fort, with main landmarks numbered. Artist(s): Taynton, Edwin George (1809-1845)
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View of Madras looking south from the fort c.1838, with main landmarks numbered. Inscribed on original label: ‘View along the South Beach. 1. Government House. 2. Banqueting Room (detached) 3. The Mount. 4. Palaveram. 5. Conspicuous Mosque. 6. Marine Bungalow, in Govt Garden. 7. The Ice ...
Landscape with rocky hills, Matheran, Bombay. Artist(s): Clarke, Melville (1834-1878)
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Landscape with rocky hills, Matheran, Bombay. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Matheran’. Water-colour; 17.8 by 26 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: This water-colour came from a collection depicting hill stations near Poona and may have been made while Clarke was on sick leave in 1854. He was also a good ph...
Inscribed on reverse: 'Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847'. Artist(s): Cobbe, Charles Power (b. 1823)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847 CPC’. Water-colour; 24.5 by 34 cm. Purchased 1979 . Note: The 8th Foot was stationed at Poona and Bombay from 1846 to 1848.
View of the interior of Fort William Calcutta looking east across the courtyard towards Chowringhee Gate and Chowringhee Road. The Regency gothic church of St Peter is on the left. To the right is the pedimented old Government House in the fort. Artist
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View of the interior of Fort William ‘c.’1828 looking east across the courtyard towards Chowringhee Gate and Chowringhee Road. The Regency gothic church of St. Peter, started in 1822 and consecrated in 1828, is on the left. To the right is the pedimented old Government House in the fort, the G...