'Square at Bangalore' and on reverse: 'The Entrance of Tippoo’s Palace, Bangalore Feby. 92'. Artist(s): Hunter, James (d. 1792)
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‘Square at Bangalore’ and on reverse: ‘The Entrance of Tippoo’s Palace, Bangalore Feby. 92’ Water-colour; 28 by 42.5 cm. Purchased 1967. Note: This is probably the original water-colour from which an aquatint by J.C. Stadler was made for ‘Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore’, publish...
Plan, elevation and section of the cave-temple at Karle, Bombay
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Plan, elevation and section of the cave-temple at Karle, Bombay. c.1876. Inscribed with titles, notes, scale etc. Pen and ink and water-colour; 127 by 96 cm. Details of acquisition unrecorded. Note: Clearly made during an archaeological survey, this drawing may have been produced under the ...
Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore. Artist(s): Vibart, Edward Daniel Hamilton (1837-1923)
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Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore. Inscribed on mount: ‘Ghaut at Cawnpore where the English were shot down - as the place appeared 1859’. Water-colour; 16.5 by 25.2 cm. Presented by Mrs. A. Farmeloe, 1967, together with Mss Eur F135.
Ruins of the Residency, Lucknow with monuments. Artist(s): Watson, M. (fl. 1936)
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Ruins of the Residency, Lucknow with monuments. Inscribed: ‘‘The Residency’ Lucknow. M. Watson ‘36’. Water-colour; 15 by 22.4 cm. Presented by Mrs. A. Farmeloe, 1967, with the papers of Edward Vibart, Mss Eur F135, although the drawing is unrelated to them.
Trooper, 1st Life Guards, c.1815. Painted 1952. Inscribed: ‘HWB. 1952’ and on reverse ‘1 Life Guards. Waterloo period’. Pen and ink and water-colour; 29.2 by 23 cm. Found in the papers of Edward Vibart, Mss Eur F135, presented by Mrs. A. Farmiloe, 1967.
Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram. Artist(s): Dibdin, Thomas Colman (1810-1893)
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Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram, c.1845. Wash heightened with white; 33.3 by 24 cm. Purchased 1967. Note: A drawing by Dibdin for his lithograph reproduced in J. Fergusson ‘Illustrations of the rock cut temples of India’, London, 1845, plate 17. Dibdin’s drawings were worked...
Copy of EIC Arms. Artist(s): Baker, F.A. (fl. 1880)
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Copy of EIC Arms. Inscribed: ‘Copy of Grant of Arms to the East India Company. Dated 13 Oct. 1698. F.A. Baker’. Water-colour with ink; 27.2 by 34.6 cm. Details of acquisition unrecorded, formerly F721.
Inscribed on reverse: 'Our house at Indiki'. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer (1850-1924)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘Our house at Indiki. 17.10.93 HMD’. Water-colour; 12.5 by 20.3 cm. Note: For his time at Indiki see letter to Lord Roberts, 27 November 1893, Mss Eur D727/4.
