Cantonment Garden, Rangoon (Burma). Artist(s): Harcourt, Alfred Frederick Pollock (1836-1910)
Scope & Content:
Cantonment Garden, Rangoon (Burma). Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Cantonment Garden Rangoon. Golden Pagoda in background.’ Water-colour; 7.75 by 11 ins.
Burmese Nuns. Artist(s): Harcourt, Alfred Frederick Pollock (1836-1910)
Scope & Content:
Burmese Nuns. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘Nuns telling their beads waiting for Alms on the Pagoda steps. They are not allowed to ask or beg or to give thanks or even acknowledge charity by a sign.’ Water-colour; 9.25 by 12.25 ins.
Portrait of Colonel Harcourt's orderly. 1868. By Major McBain 92nd Highlanders. Artist(s): McBain, Major (fl. 1868)
Scope & Content:
Portrait of the orderly of Colonel Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1836-1910). c.1868. Inscribed on front in pencil by Colonel Harcourt: ‘My Chuprassie (about 1868) by Major McBain 92nd Highers.’ Water-colour; 14 by 9 ins. Presented by Duncan Grant, Esq., 13 July 1965. For Harcourt see W...
Pontoons for the building of the Garai Bridge, Nadia district (Bengal). 1869. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The 'Pontoons' at Gourie Bridge. Lifting cylinder that went over in cyclone10th June '69.’ Pen-and-ink and crayon; 8 by 10 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: This sket...