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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) WD3472-3527 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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

2. 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

3. WD3479

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3479
Title:
'Rough Pencil Sketch from the Point Bungalo Ras Marbut, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the verandah of Haines’s bungalow at Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbūţ] looking towards Little Aden. Haines sits facing away from the viewer at right, apparently sketching. His wife and another woman stand at centre in profile, looking out to sea. Several chairs, benches and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 watercolour and pencil drawing on paper

4. WD3483

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3483
Title:
Houses at the foot of mountains, probably Aden
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of several colonial buildings at the foot of mountains, probably at Aden. This unfinished pencil sketch may depict Haines’ first residence in Crater. A cross or flagstaff on the lowest peak at upper centre may provide additional clues as to its location. Inscripti...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

5. WD3520

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3520
Title:
‘Inscriptions found at a cave near Wadi Shakhowee.' by Sanders, Hulton and Smith
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820s-1854
Extent:
1 drawing

6. WD3525

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3525
Title:
'Sheik Meidee.' by John Sherbrooke Gell (c. 1823-78)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-41
Extent:
1 drawing

7. WD3526

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3526
Title:
'Aden from near the South Gate.' by Anon. (C.B.)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing

8. WD3527

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3527
Title:
'Gebel Shumshum. Aden from Ras Tarshayen.' by John Cumming Anderson (1825-70)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 drawing