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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1228 Level [40] File

21. Photo 1228(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(21)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 12. 'Cassia fistula' 'Cathartocarpus fistula' Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of trees in a clearing. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'A beautiful tree with long pendulous racemesof yellow flamens resembling [?]likurneem. The pods are often two feet long.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 1228(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(22)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 13. Tamarindus indica. Tamarind tree. Hoshungabad: bank of Nerbudda River. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Webber' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a tamarind tree beside a path, with a European woman (possibly Webber's wife Matilda?) standing in its shade in the right foreground. The India figure standing in the left background, presumably a servant, is id...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 1228(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(23)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees. No. 14.] Hardwickii [Hardwickia] binata. Unjun tree. Very hard & heavy timber. Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the tree standing in a grassy forest clearing. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'This is a tall graceful tree with delicate foliage not uncommon in the Narbadda valley. Its timber is harder, heavier & more durable than teak. It makes exc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 1228(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(24)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 15. Terminalia tomentosa. Saj tree. Boree [Bori] Forest. My camp. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a saj tree in a forest clearing, with Webber's tent on the right. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'Called 'asan' in Bengal. A very common beautiful & very lofty tree with very straight stem usually found with sal which it strongly re...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 1228(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(25)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India.] Old peepul tree. Our compound Hoshungabad [and] Ficus religiosa. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a the base of a peepul tree and in the right foreground a Ficus religiosa (bo tree), growing beside a stream or pool near Webber's house at Hoshangabad. A number of religious artefacts are placed at the base of the peepul tree. Another copy of this image ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1228(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(26)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India.] No. 15/2. ' Babul,' Acassia arabica - camel thorn [and] mango. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of tree growing on either side of a road.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 1228(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(27)
Title:
Nerbudda River at Hoshungabad. Bhopal hills across the river after the rains. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the riverbank looking across towards distant hills.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 1228(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(28)
Title:
A forest elephant, 'Mulunga' Hathee. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Side view of the seated elephant, with the photographer's wife Matilda (identified), seated on its back. The mahout is identified as Khoda Bux and the young man standing in profile on the right as 'Conta Pershad Chuprassee.' With additional note on album page beneath...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 1228(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(29)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 17. Anogeissus acuminatus [acuminata], 'dhoura'. Puchmurri [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of tree in lightly wooded ground. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'A beautiful small tree, Central Provinces.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 1228(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(30)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees. No. 17.] Eugenia jambolana. Jamun tree. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a jamun tree growing beside a road. In the foreground stands a European identified as Major Hughes Hallett, standing beside a two-wheeled cart or 'ringi.' On the left is a larger cart, a timber gharree, loaded with wood. With additional note written on album...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item