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31. 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

32. 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

33. WD4035

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4035
Title:
Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house in Calcutta during Durga puja. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Europeans being entertained by dancers and musicians in a splendid Indian house during Durga puja. 23 by 43.5 cm. Note: A study for this composition, clearly not by Prinsep, is at WD4495. The subject matter and treatment is rather unlike Prinsep’s normal style, and it is possible that this i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1840s
Extent:
1 Item

34. WD4099

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4099
Title:
Garden overlooking the river. A small boy, with a servant carrying a sunshade, is watching decorated boats on the river. Inscribed on facing page of original sketchbook: 'Charles’s Garden at Isherah looking south'. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1
Scope & Content:
Garden overlooking the river. A small boy, with a servant carrying a sunshade, is watching decorated boats on the river. Inscribed on facing page of original sketchbook: ‘Charles’s Garden at Isherah looking south’. 23 by 33 cm. Purchased 1985. Note: Charles Robert was the second son of John...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830s
Extent:
1 Item

35. WD4027

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4027
Title:
Prinsep’s Ghat and Water Gate of Fort William, Calcutta, from the right bank of the Hooghly with river craft and a three masted EIC troopship. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Prinsep’s Ghat and Water Gate from the right bank of the Hooghly with river craft and a three masted EIC troopship. 23 by 66 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1840s
Extent:
1 Item

36. WD4033

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4033
Title:
At left an ascetic wearing an elaborate headdress and arm bands with a group of followers, on the banks of the Ganges. In the centre people are clustered round a dying man on a charpoy, on the right is the carcass of a cow. Artist(s): Prinsep, William
Scope & Content:
At left an ascetic wearing an elaborate headdress and arm bands with a group of followers, on the banks of the Ganges. In the centre people are clustered round a dying man on a charpoy, on the right is the carcass of a cow surrounded by vultures, crows, crocodiles and an hyena. 23 by 67 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1840s
Extent:
1 Item

37. WD4028

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4028
Title:
Village with a small tulsi altar and a watercarrier with his bullock. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:
Village with a small ‘tulsi’ altar and a watercarrier with his bullock. 25 by 35.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1840s
Extent:
1 Item