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Music manuscripts of the musicologist and collector Alan Walker Tyson (b.1926, d.2000): 1732 – circa 1970, n.d. The collection also includes printed music and books, which are catalogued separately. For a description of the collection, see O. W. Neighbour, ‘The Tyson Collection’, The British Lib...
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.
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...
‘Colonel D’arcy Drawings Made During the Embassy to Persia 1810–12’ by Joseph D’Arcy (1780–1846)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains fifty-eight watercolour landscape views of locations visited during the Ouseley embassy to Persia, 1810–12, as well as two handlists, probably created by later owner F. G. McCutcheon c. 1880, two notes from The Graphic magazine to McCutcheon and a newspa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-12
Extent:
Album of 58 watercolour drawings of views of Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, mostly made during the Ouseley embassy to Tehran (1810–12), 1 newspaper cutting, 2 notes and 2 handlists (c. 1880) lightly tipped into a leather-bound album.