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8291. WD34

Reference (shelfmark):
WD34
Title:
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper

8292. WD36

Reference (shelfmark):
WD36
Title:
'Babelmandel', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper

8293. WD37

Reference (shelfmark):
WD37
Title:
'Gibel Tir', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper

8294. WD129

Reference (shelfmark):
WD129
Title:
'Cape Fartak on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

8295. WD130

Reference (shelfmark):
WD130
Title:
'Ras Sharma on the Arabian Coast' by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 drawing

8296. WD1240

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1240
Title:
'Muskat Harbour, Persian Gulf (Arabia).' by Norman Victor Lacey Rybot (1876-1961)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1915
Extent:
1 drawing

8297. WD1478

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1478
Title:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-56
Extent:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England

8298. WD3110

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110
Title:
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album

8299. WD3475

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3475
Title:
'The North Pass of Aden or Baab el Yemen. Inside' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the ‘North Pass’, or Baab el Yemen, at Aden. This probably depicts a pass between the main British settlement at Crater and Khormakser. “Inside” may refer to the location the drawing depicts, or to the fact that it depicts the south side of the pass, i.e. within th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

8300. WD3476

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3476
Title:
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

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