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11. WD540(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(72)
Title:
Ruins of the old Factory - on Negrais Island.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Ruins of the old Factory - on Negrais Island.’ REMNANT of the ruins of the English Factory, in which, a century ago, the whole of the Europeans, it is recorded, were murdered.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

12. WD540(94)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(94)
Title:
Three Burmese Infantry Soldiers.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Three Burmese Infantry Soldiers.’ THE three men here represented, who are pure Burmese, were picked out of the guard of six hundred attached to the Residency, and may be received as characteristic of the whole body. Vigorous and powerfully formed men, and, as is well known, very far from wanti...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

13. WD540(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(59)
Title:
Chengoo or Sengoo-Oung.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Chengoo or Sengoo-Oung.’ AFTER four hours further journeying the traveller reaches Chengoo Oung, also on the east bank, where, on a platform surrounded by a parapet, a strikingly picturesque, rather novel shaped, and ornamented Pagoda (the subject of this sketch) crowns a commanding point of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

14. WD540(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(80)
Title:
Moung Toh. Khien.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Toh. Khien.’ BELIEVED to be the husband of one of the Khyen women already noticed, and far better looking than either. The character of the face strongly approximates to the Shan physiognomy.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

15. WD540(102)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(102)
Title:
Thomas Spears Esq.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Thomas Spears Esq.’ THE only British merchant and resident at Umeerapoora; to whom the members of the mission were indebted for many valuable and friendly attentions. Mr. Spears has resided in Umeerapoora about eighteen years. He was a sufferer by the rebellion of 1852, and during nine months ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

16. WD540(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(44)
Title:
The Throne and audience Chamber, Palace.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Throne and audience Chamber, Palace.’ CALLED ‘Thee-ha-thuna-yàzà-pulleng’, and used only on occasions of importance. If this drawing realizes in any degree to the eye the blaze and brilliancy of the colonnaded hall, with its choir and transepts, its elaborately ornate and singular throne,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

17. WD540(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(78)
Title:
Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.’ THESE women, who were small made, and very plain, are of the semi-wild race of people known as ‘Khyens’, inhabiting a portion of the Aracan hills. (See Report page 283.) The faces of these poor women were tattooed over their whole surface; a barbar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

18. WD5

Reference (shelfmark):
WD5
Title:
Kaji Karbir Khatri of Nepal. Portrait, three-quarter length, facing right. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
Kaji Karbir Khatri of Nepal. Portrait, three-quarter length, facing right. 1850. Inscribed on front in ink in ‘nagari’ characters: ‘Sri Kazi Karbir Khatri, umar 56 baras’; in pencil in English: ‘Kasee Kirbeer Khutree-age 56. A. Kazee.’ Pencil and wash; 15.75 by 8.25 ins. Note: Kaji Karbir ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 Item

19. WD540(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(60)
Title:
Samaik-gon.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Samaik-gon.’ QUITTING Mengoon, and continuing on the eastern side of the river, the Mission passed the village of Yan-de-boo,-remembered as the locality of the Treaty bearing the name of that village. It appears to remain, as it was when visited by Colonel Symes, — ‘a town remarkable for its m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

20. WD540(81)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(81)
Title:
Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.’ MYOKE, or under Magistrate, of Thyetmew, the British frontier station. He is said to have commanded a considerable body of the Burmese against us at the taking of Rangoon, and according to his own history of the event, to have been the last to quit the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item