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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Material Type Photographs

91. Photo 49/1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(13)
Title:
'View from Old Fort, Hormuz.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View from the old fort on Hormuz Island (perhaps the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle) towards a settlement, probably Hormuz itself. All the structures are low-lying stone buildings with wooden or reed roofs. Craggy hills rise in th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

92. Photo 49/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(14)
Title:
'General View, Hormuz.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View from the old fort on Hormuz Island (perhaps the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle) towards a settlement, likely Hormuz itself. All the structures are low-lying stone buildings with wooden or reed roofs. Craggy hills rise in the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

93. Photo 49/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(15)
Title:
'Distant View of Hormuz.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of Hormuz Island from on board ship. An imposing fort, probably the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle (shown in Photo 49/1/12), is visible in the centre background. Craggy hills rise in the background. Inscriptions: Ink, belo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

94. Photo 49/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(16)
Title:
'Landing at foot of Salt Hills [Qishm].' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of Lord Curzon’s party being carried onshore on Qishm Island, at the foot of the salt hills. A small rowing boat is pulled up almost to the shore at left. Seven men stand on shore up the beach at centre, some of whom appear to be preparing a bath chair. A small dog ru...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

95. Photo 49/1(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(17)
Title:
'Salt Rocks and River [Qishm].' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the salt rocks and a river on Qishm Island. Rocky hills rise in the background, while at right a scree-covered slope leads down to the river at centre. Inscriptions: Ink, below image: 'Salt Rocks and River.' Pencil, lower right, alongside image: ‘17’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

96. Photo 49/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(18)
Title:
'Artist at Work, Kishim [Qishm].' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Showing an unidentified European man wearing a pith helmet sketching in a notebook on a rocky hillside on the island of Kishim [Qishm], off the Persian coastline. Inscriptions: Ink, below image: 'Artist at Work, Kishim.' Pencil, lower right, alongside image: ‘18’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

97. Photo 49/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(19)
Title:
'Bodyguard of Mailed Sowars, Koweit.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View of a group of sowars or mounted escorts. The title presumably refers to chain-mail worn by the soldiers (visible in the helmet worn by the man third from left). Inscriptions Ink, below image: 'Bodyguard of Mailed Sowars, Koweit.' Pencil, lower right, alongside image...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

98. Photo 49/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(20)
Title:
'Camel Guard-of-Honour, Koweit.' Photographer: Raja Deen Dayal & Sons
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View of a group of eleven men mounted on camels to form a guard of honour. Inscriptions Ink, below image: 'Camel Guard-of-Honour, Koweit.' Pencil, lower right, alongside image: ‘20’
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

99. Photo 49/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(21)
Title:
'The Shaikh waiting, Koweit.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View in the desert in Koweit [Kuwait], showing the Shaikh of Koweit on horseback. A man stands alongside the horse. Both are wearing vertically striped robes and wear long swords at their waists. In the background at right another man carries a flag atop a staff and also we...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28-29 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

100. Photo 49/1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 49/1(22)
Title:
'Landing at Koweit.' Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter View of the shoreline at Koweit [Kuwait]. At right, Lord Curzon and his staff are being carried ashore by Arab men from a small boat at far right. The Shaikh of Kuwait or his retainer stands at left alongside a horse waiting for the Europeans to come ashore. In the distan...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28-29 Nov 1903
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

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