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1. Mss Eur B360b (65-94)

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Mss Eur B360b (65-94)
Title:
Album containing water-colours illustrating the notebook of Lady Florentia Sale (?1790-1853), during her stay in Agra 1832-33, while her husband Robert Sale was in command of his regiment the 13th Foot, at Agra 1831-35 Also 30 Benares paintings on mic
Scope & Content:
30 gouache paintings on mica illustrating festivals, transport, occupations and boats, by Benares artists, c. 1820-30. Inscibed below as noted by Lady Sale. Various sets of differing quality have been mixed together. 65. ‘Elephant with Howdah.’ 165 by 216 mm. 66. ‘Suttee - or burning a widow ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

2. Mss Eur B369/3

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Mss Eur B369/3
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Illustrated journal containing 20 drawings and 5 prints. Inscribed on cover: 'Residence in India and return to Etton 1851-1852'. Artist(s): Machell, Thomas (1824-1862)
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Inscribed on cover: ‘Residence in India and return to Etton 1851-1852. Thomas Machell’. f.1v Pilgrims at the source of the Ganges. Pencil heightened with white. f.3 Wounded white rhinoceros. Water-colour. f.4 Wounded rhinoceros. Water-colour. f.5 Wounded elephant. Water-colour. f.6 ‘‘St...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851-1852
Extent:
1 Item

3. Mss Eur F95/2

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Mss Eur F95/2
Title:
Some remarks on the Soil and Cultivation on the Western Side of the River Hoogly. 8 drawings by Indian draftsmen, probably of Calcutta
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‘Some remarks on the Soil and Cultivation on the Western Side of the River Hoogly.’ 8 drawings by Indian draftsmen, probably from Calcutta, c.1790, collected by Robert Kyd (1746-93). Despatched to the Court of Directors, 13 December 1792, by Robert Kyd. At his death in May 1793 he bequeathed h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

4. Mss Eur G91(172)

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Mss Eur G91(172)
Title:
Colonel A.P. Phayre. d. Decr. 1885 aged 73, afterwards Lt General Phayre G.C.M.G, K.C.S.I., C.B. Photographer: Rowe, Josiah
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait, in half-profile, with a Burmese servant squatting beside him. His right arm rests on a table on which a 'Map of British Burmah' is prominently displayed. Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (1812-1885) was the first Chief Commissioner of British Bur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item