Table with stamped leather top. One of a set of six tables. L. 3'6"x D.2'3". Hardy furniture catalogue no.65.
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Table with stamped leather top. One of a set of six tables (F966-971) formerly in use in the India Office Council Chamber. L. 3'6"x D.2'3". J. Hardy ‘India Office Furniture’, no.65.
Portrait bust of Friedrich August Rosen (1805-37). Scholar of Sanskrit and the Semitic languages. Artist(s): Westmacott, Richard, Jr. (1799-1872)
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Friedrich August Rosen (1805-37), an undraped bust. c.1837. Facsimile after the marble in the British Museum. Height 55 cm. Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. Rosen was born in Hanover, and studied at Gottingen and Leipzig, where he abandoned law in favour of oriental studies. ...
Relief portrait of James Silk Buckingham. Monogrammed HD London, with subject's signature. Artist(s): D., H. (c.1852)
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D., H. Relief profile portrait of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), facing left. Buckingham spent his youth at sea, and reached India in 1815. In 1818 he started to publish the ‘Calcutta Journal,’ which took such a very anti-government line that his publisher’s licence was revoked and he was...