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21. Add MS 15959a

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Title:
Sketch-book containing 24 drawings made during Ozias Humphrey’s visit to Lucknow, Ramnagar, Mirzapur, Benares, and Allahabad in 1786.. Artist(s): Humphry, Ozias (1742-1810)
Scope & Content:
24 drawings (in a sketch book with several blank folios) made during his visit to Lucknow in 1786. Inscribed with titles and dates. Pen-and-ink, grey wash, pencil and water-colour; size of volume 211 x 158mm. 1. ‘From Mr. Gregory’ House at Lucknow looking across the Goomty. May 2nd 1786. From ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1786
Extent:
1 Item

22. Add MS 89302

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Title:
Journal of a continental tour, 1815-1816
Scope & Content:
Journal of an unidentified Englishman touring the Low Countries, Germany and Italy, with notes on sights, artworks, theatres, opera houses and landscapes, lists of prices and distances, and inns used. The tour started from London and extended to Naples, via Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Cologne, Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1815-21 Feb 1816
Extent:
1 volume ([84] folios)

23. Add MS 89351

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Title:
Architectural notebooks of Charles Bacon
Scope & Content:
Notebooks of Charles Bacon, London architect. During the period covered by the notebooks Bacon was appointed clerk of the works at Whitehall, Westminster and St James's (1811), made responsible for the mews at Charing Cross (1815), and appointed architect to Ely Cathedral and to Princess Charlot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1817
Extent:
3 volumes

24. Add Or 483

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Title:
A landscape with a shrine and pilgrims
Scope & Content:
A scene at a shrine. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Welch (1963), no.84; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 23. A shrine to Siva, flying a red banner from the roof pi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

25. Add Or 484

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Title:
A river scene with a nobleman in a morpunkhi, with a shrine and travellers
Scope & Content:
A river scene. Murshidabad, c.1760. Purchased January 1957. Gouache with gold; pale blue borders with floral decoration in gold. 253 by 333 mm; pages 270 by 350 mm. Reproduced: Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 24. In the middle of the river is a peacock barge in which a wealthy nobleman rides, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

26. Add Or 486

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Title:
Golden Temple, Amritsar
Scope & Content:
The Golden Temple, Amritsar (Punjab). By an Amritsar artist, c.1860. Inscribed in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i sri darbar sahib jiv waqi‘ah i shahr i Amritsar -jiv parastish-gah i Sikhan’ (Picture of the Holy Sikh Temple situated in the city of Amritsar; the holy worshipping place of the Sik...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

27. Add Or 538

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Title:
Qutb Minar, Delhi
Scope & Content:
The Qutb Minar, Delhi with Major Robert Smith’s cupola on the right. By a Delhi artist, 1886. Inscribed on front: ‘The Kutb from a Native artist in 1886. 245ft height.’ Water-colour; 25 by 18 ins. Narrow Indian ink border. Purchased 6 May 1913. Note: Sombre in colour with a grey sky, brow...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1886
Extent:
1 Item

28. Add Or 568

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Title:
Shwehmawdaw Pagoda, Pegu, Burma
Scope & Content:
The Shwehmawdaw Pagoda, Pegu, Burma. Probably by an Indian artist in Calcutta, c.1800. Inscribed: ‘Choemadoo, the Great Temple at Pegue. See Syme’s Ava, p.186. Height 361’; on back a note written by Sotheby’s in 1888. Water-colour; 18 by 23 ins. Pink border with Indian ink rules. Purchase...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800
Extent:
1 Item

29. Add Or 740

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Title:
Palladian garden-house near Madras.
Scope & Content:
Palladian garden-house near Madras. By a Madras artist, c.1790. Inscribed on mount: ‘House built by Thomas Powney Esq., 2 miles from Fort St George on the Mount Road.’ Water-colour; 6.5 by 13.25 ins. Purchased 10 August 1957. Note: Thomas Powney (1721-82) was a free merchant living in Madra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

30. Add Or 948

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Title:
The Red Fort, Delhi
Scope & Content:
The Red Fort, Delhi. Lucknow, c.1780-90. Purchased June 1959. Numbered 529 in Persian numerals on reverse. Gouache with gold; black border. 292 by 415 mm; page 325 by 445 mm. A bird’s-eye view of the Red Fort at Delhi from the east, showing an emperor, probably Shah ‘Alam (1759-1806) enter...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

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