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1251. WD4375

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4375
Title:
View of a river and the distant Malabar hills, October 1874. Artist(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)
Scope & Content:
View of a river and the distant Malabar hills, October 1874. Inscribed: ‘Malabar 1874’ and ‘EL 1874’. Water-colour with scratching out; 17.5 by 37.6 cm. Purchased 1994. Provenance: Frances, Lady Waldegrave and thence by descent. Note: ‘Indian journal’, 24 October 1874: 'The palms are in a p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
1 Item

1252. WD4377

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4377
Title:
The Brihadiswaraswami Temple, Tanjore, September 1874. Artist(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)
Scope & Content:
The Brihadiswaraswami Temple, Tanjore, September 1874. Inscribed: ‘EL. 1875’. Water-colour; 25.4 by 39.5 cm. Purchased 1994. Provenance: The Hon. Mrs. Bonham Carter. Note: Lear's ‘Indian journal’ entry for 20 September 1874: 'This great pyramid is a wonderfully fine thing and, being old an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
1 Item

1253. WD4381

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4381
Title:
View of the west end of St John's Church, Calcutta, showing houses fronting onto the churchyard and the Rohilla monument. Artist(s): Prinsep, Amelia Rebecca (1798-1860)
Scope & Content:
View of the west end of St. John's Church, Calcutta showing houses fronting onto the churchyard and the Rohilla monument, c.1830. Inscribed: ‘Calcutta. From W. Prinsep by E.R. Prinsep’, and on the original mount: ‘William's House. Charles's House St John's Church’. Water-colour; 18.7 by 26.6...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

1254. WD4417

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4417
Title:
Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing. Artist(s): Porter, John Young (1780-1812)
Scope & Content:
Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing. Inscribed on reverse of original mount, now m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 Item

1255. WD4449

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4449
Title:
The Nagarkhana or northern gateway to the old palace at Kolhapur, with elephants in chambers on either side of the central gateway. Artist(s): Herold, Ben. D. (fl. c.1845)
Scope & Content:
The Nagarkhana or northern gateway to the old palace at Kolhapur, with elephants in chambers on either side of the central gateway. Signed lower right ‘Ben.D. Herold Jany. 1845’, and inscribed in ink on reverse: ‘Entrance to the Palace, Kolapore, Bombay Presidency. B.D. Herold, 14th Lt. Dragoo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

1256. WD4451

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4451
Title:
Parsee girl. Artist(s): Solomon, William Ewart Gladstone (1880--1965)
Scope & Content:
A Parsee girl seated on a chair wrapped in a shawl, viewed almost in profile. Signed along bottom in white paint: ‘W.E. Gladstone Solomon - India - 1918.’ Mixed media on paper; 492 by 282 mm. Purchased 1999.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

1257. WD4460

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4460
Title:
The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, with a palanquin and resting bearers by the shore. Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
Scope & Content:
The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, with a palanquin and resting bearers by the shore, 1802-05. Water-colour, pencil and pen-and-ink, with scratching out; 195 by 255 mm. Purchased 2000. Published: P. Conner, George Chinnery 1774-1852, London, 1993, col. pl. 11. Note: The drawing is in an earl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1802-1805
Extent:
1 Item

1258. WD4463

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4463
Title:
Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace Madras by Azim al-Daula, Nawab of the Carnatic, 18th February 1805. Artist(s): Chinnery, George (1774-1852)
Scope & Content:
Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace, Madras, by the Nawab ‘Azim al-Daula of the Carnatic, 18th February 1805. Wellesley is being introduced by a languid Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, the Governor of Madras, bo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
1 Item

1259. WD4470

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4470
Title:
Garden house of Mrs Stephenson afterwards Lady Essex. Artist(s): Cornish, Hubert (1757-1823)
Scope & Content:
Garden house near Calcutta, 1793-98. Inscribed on the reverse: ‘Garden house of the late Mrs Stephenstone afterwards Lady Essex.’ Pencil and water-colour; 28.6 by 45. 7 cm. Purchased Christie’s 21 September 2000. Note: Edward Stephenson, a member of the Board of Trade of the East India Compa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1793-1798
Extent:
1 Item

1260. WD4479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4479
Title:
The Parsonage Gorakhpur. Artist(s): Clark, Hezekiah (1792-1868)
Scope & Content:
The Parsonage at Gorakhpur, 1823. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Parsonage Gurukhpore for Mrs. James Lobb. 20th October 1823’, with initials in lower left corner: ‘H.C.’ Old mount inscribed: ‘Parsonage Gurukhpore painted by our Great-grandmother Anne Clark for Mrs. James Lobb. 20th October 1823.’ W...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1823
Extent:
1 Item

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