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Project / Collection Elphinstone Collection Subject Portraits Level [40] File

1. Add Or 4670

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4670
Title:
A Khojeh of Uzbek Tartary
Scope & Content:
f.1v ‘A Khojeh of Uzbek Tartary. Plate by to face Page 1103.’ By a Delhi artist, c.1810 On album page above: ‘By Native Artist.’ Water-colour; 18.5 by 11 cm. Note: Elphinstone’s ‘Cabool,’ pl.X, opposite p.469. He notes that the portrait represents ‘Mahommed Hu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 4671

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4671
Title:
Dooraunee Shepherd.
Scope & Content:
f.7 ‘Dooraunee Shepherd. Plate II to face Page 517. By Native Artist.’. By a Delhi artist, c.1810 Water-colour; 25 by 16 cm. Note: Elphinstone’s ‘Cabool,’ pl.II (‘Dooraunee Shepherds’), left hand figure only. He stands against an uncoloured background, with beautiful...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 4677

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4677
Title:
A Hazaureh.
Scope & Content:
f.14 ‘A Hazaureh. Plate XII to face Page 1132.’ By a Delhi artist, c.1810 Inscribed on album page: ‘By Native Artist.’. Water-colour; 19.75 by 12 cm. Note: Elphinstone’s ‘Cabool,’ pl.XII, opposite p.483. An inhabitant of the mountains west of Kabul. Elphinsto...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD4317

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317
Title:
Four original drawings by Robert Grindlay in an album compiled by Grindlay of the original drawings for the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone’s 'An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India', London, 1815.. Artist(
Scope & Content:
The album contains four original water-colour drawings by Grindlay, and ten drawings by Indian artists (Add.Or.4670-79), with notes and letters relating to the illustrations of the book. The whole album was offered to Lord Elphinstone in 1865 when a biography of Mountstuart Elphinstone was bein...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD4317, f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.6
Title:
Proof impression before letterpress of frontispiece to vol. 1 of Burnes’ Travels into Bokhara, inscribed: Portrait of Sir Alexr. Burnes in a Cabul dress 1834.. Artist(s): Finden, Edward Francis (1791-1857) after Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870)
Scope & Content:
Proof impression before letterpress of frontispiece to vol. 1 of Burnes’ ‘Travels into Bokhara’, inscribed: ‘Portrait of Sir Alexr. Burnes in a Cabul dress 1834’, and by Grindlay on the album page: ‘from Sir Alexr. Burnes to RMG’. Note: The title of the engraving is actually ‘Cost...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD4317, f.9v

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.9v
Title:
Jamsetjee Bomanjee, the master ship-builder of Bombay.. Artist(s): Haines, William (1778-1848) after Nash, Edward (1778-1821)
Scope & Content:
‘Jamsetjee Bomanjee. E. Nash pinxt. W. Haines sculpt’. Inscribed: ‘The great Ship Builder of Bombay’. Note: Published London, 1812.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD4317, f.13v

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.13v
Title:
Abdallah-ebn-Souhoud. Chief of the Wahabys, beheaded at Constantinople in 1819.. Artist(s): Haghe, Louis (1806-1895)
Scope & Content:
‘Abdallah-ebn-Souhoud. Chief of the Wahabys, beheaded at Constantinople in 1819. On stone by L. Haghe. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the King. Gate St’. Note: Hand-coloured lithograph, untrimmed. See Brydges, ‘An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 Item

8. WD4317, f.16va

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.16va
Title:
One of the Envoy’s Servants equipped for the Road. From Brydges, An Account of the Transaction of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, facing p.3.. Artist(s): Picken, Andrew (1815-1845), after Sutherland, James (1784-1850)
Scope & Content:
‘One of the Envoy’s Servants equipped for the Road. Sketched from Life by Sir J. Sutherland. On stone by A. Picken. Printed by J. Netherclift’. Note: From Brydges, ‘An Account of the Transaction of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia’, facing p.3. Lieutenant James Su...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 Item

9. WD4317, f.16vb

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.16vb
Title:
One of the Envoy’s Meerzas, or Secretaries. From Brydges, An Account of the Transaction of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, facing p.74.. Artist(s): Picken, Andrew (1815-1845), after Sutherland, James (1784-1850)
Scope & Content:
‘One of the Envoy’s Meerzas, or Secretaries’, (rest as (a)). Note: From Brydges’ ‘Account’, facing p.74.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 Item

10. WD4317, f.16vc

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4317, f.16vc
Title:
Eusuph Khan. Soobadar. A Pathan. Native of Hyderabad. Lithograph by Colesworthy Grant from Sketches of Oriental Heads Calcutta, 1839-46.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Eusuph Khan. Soobadar. A Pathan. Native of Hyderabad’. From Colesworthy Grant's, ‘Sketches of Oriental Heads’, Calcutta, 1839-46.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1846
Extent:
1 Item