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4801. NHD57/46

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57/46
Title:
Michelia. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Michelia Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre; Magnoliaceae Original inscriptions: : 洋狗牙花 (front lower left in ink); Woody, greyish branch, with lanteral branchlets. Long, elliptic lanceolate leaves, with entire margins, slighly ondulate. Some leaves show signs of decay. Numerous solitary...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4802. NHD57/47

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57/47
Title:
Litchi. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Litchi Litchi chinensis Sonn.; Sapindaceae family Original inscriptions: 黑葉茘枝 (front lower right in ink); 黑葉茘枝 Hai-yiep-li-tchi (reverse lower right in pencil) Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Dimocarpus litchi (front lower right in pencil) Brown, woody branch, tometos...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4803. NHD57/48

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57/48
Title:
Chloranthus. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Chloranthus Chloranthus spicatus (Thunb.) Makino; Chlorantaceae family Original inscriptions: 鸡瓜蘭 (front lower left in ink); 五月開 (reverse lower left in ink); Kai-tchaw-lan (reverse lower right in pencil) Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink) Thick, light green branch, with o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4804. NHD57/49

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD57/49
Title:
Tung-oil tree. Artist(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Tung-oil tree Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw; Euphorbiaceae family Original inscriptions: 白油子 (front lower left in ink); 四月開 (reverse lower left in ink); Pae-yow-tzeu (reverse lower right in pencil) Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink) Thick, light green, erect branch...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

4805. NHD58

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD58
Title:
Arabian Coffee
Scope & Content:
Single drawing from the collection of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859). Elphinstone served with the East India Company from 1795 to 1827, ending his career as Governor of Bombay 1819 to 1827. He was a great scholar and keenly interested in the flora of India. The present drawing was part of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1827
Extent:
1 Item

4806. NHD59

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD59
Title:
Red Avadavat (a pair, on a branch). Artist(s): Ram Das (fl. 1777-1782)
Scope & Content:
Red Avadavat (a pair, on a branch) ‘Amandava amandava’ Original inscriptions: [Inscribed on front in nastaliq] ‘La‘l o munya’. [in English] ‘In the collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta. Painted by Ram Das Native of Patna’ [in nastaliq] ‘Ramdas.’ [inscribed on back of mount: ‘Amaduvade Finch. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1777-1782
Extent:
1 Item

4807. NHD60

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60
Title:
NHD60 Two drawings of plants, part of a large set belonging to Major James Nathaniel Rind (? - 1814). By a Calcutta artist, c.1790-1800. Gouache: 25.7 ...
Scope & Content:
NHD60 Two drawings of plants, part of a large set belonging to Major James Nathaniel Rind (? - 1814). By a Calcutta artist, c.1790-1800. Gouache: 25.75by 17.75 in (654 by 451 mm). From the collection of W.G. and M. Archer. Purchased 1978. NOTE: The series may well have been specially commi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1789-1800
Extent:
2 items

4808. NHD60/1

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60/1
Title:
Unidentified plant, perhaps a botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.
Scope & Content:
Unidentified plant Inscribed on back: ‘JNR 26’ NOTE : Exhibited American Federation of Arts 1978-79. See S.C. Welch 1978. pl.l2c ‘A Botanical fantasy based upon a Heliconia Ginger or a Grass Flower.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item

4809. NHD60/2

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD60/2
Title:
A plant of the Dioscorea group (yam).
Scope & Content:
A plant of the Dioscorea group (yam). Inscribed on back: ‘JNR 24. Yam (Dioscorea sp.)’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790-1800
Extent:
1 Item

4810. NHD61

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD61
Title:
GRANT, ELIZABETH NICHOLSON AGNES (fl. 1834-54) She married John Grant of the Bengal Medical Service in Calcutta on 4 April 1825. John Grant, Assistan ...
Scope & Content:
GRANT, ELIZABETH NICHOLSON AGNES (fl. 1834-54) She married John Grant of the Bengal Medical Service in Calcutta on 4 April 1825. John Grant, Assistant Surgeon 7 Oct 1816; Surgeon 17 Aug 1827; SS 17 July 1852; retired 11 Sept 1857. With J.T. Pearson he started and edited the ‘Indian Journal of M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1833-1854
Extent:
3 items