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Reference (shelfmark):: WD3748
Title:: 'East India House. Leadenhall Street 1711'. Artist(s): Vertue, George (1684-1756), after
Scope & Content:: ‘East India House. Leadenhall Street 1711’. Pencil; 36.8 by 26.7 cm. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: This drawing is a tracing of WD1341.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1711
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3749
Title:: Bungalow with pillared portico beside a river. Artist(s): Dyce, Charles Andrew (1816-1853)
Scope & Content:: Bungalow with pillared portico beside a river. Inscribed: ‘Sook Saugor, Oct. 1839’. Water-colour; 24.4 by 27.8 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: The Governor-General had a country house at Sukh Sagar before the establishment of Barrackpore, and there were several large houses in the area before the ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1839
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3750
Title:: 'The Church at Coonoor, March 1855'. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles Walters (1822-1900)
Scope & Content:: ‘The Church at Coonoor, March 1855’. Water-colour; 24.5 by 34.3 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: Made while D’Oyly was Assistant, Stud Dept, Madras.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3751
Title:: Landscape with rocky hills, Matheran, Bombay. Artist(s): Clarke, Melville (1834-1878)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1854
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3752
Title:: Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir. Artist(s): Rattray, James (1818-1854)
Scope & Content:: Cave temple of Bhaumajo, Bhawan, near Islamabad, Kashmir, 1840s. Inscribed in Kashmiri script: ‘Umgiri Vaishnumanova’. Water-colour; 28.7 by 41.2 cm. Purchased 1979 from a collection belonging to descendants of his family.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3753
Title:: View of Fort St George from the south. Artist(s): Robertson, John (b. 1762)
Scope & Content:: View of Fort St. George from the south c.1781. Inscribed: ‘Fort St George’ repeated on reverse. Water-colour; 37.2 by 76 cm. Purchased 1979. Note: The drawing was one of a group of views of Fort St. George formerly belonging to Lord Macartney, one of which was inscribed: ‘Ino Robertson Delt....
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1781
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3754
Title:: Inscribed on reverse: 'Tin Tal Cave Ellora. March 1847'. Artist(s): Cobbe, Charles Power (b. 1823)
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3755
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3756
Title:: Akbar’s mausoleum, Sikandra, Agra, from the north. Artist(s): Hislop, William (d. 1829)
Scope & Content:: Akbar’s mausoleum, Sikandra, Agra, from the north. Water-colour; 32.5 by 50.7 cm. Purchased 1979.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1820s
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3757
Title:: Entrance gateway to St Thomas’s Mount, Madras. Artist(s): George, James (1782-1828)
Scope & Content:: Entrance gateway to St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras. Inscribed: ‘Madras. J. George. May 1811’. Water-colour; 35.5 by 54 cm. Purchased 1979.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 Item

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