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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Aden, Arabian Peninsula

541. Mss Eur F112/450

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/450
Title:
Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains printed monthly memoranda of information received by the Government of India 'regarding external affairs other than those relating to the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan, and Persia' for the months of January to March 1905 inclusive (folios 4-17); memoranda of information re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:

1 volume (110 folios)

542. Mss Eur F140/234/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F140/234/4
Title:
‘Capt C. at Marshag. May 22nd 71’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This pencil sketch on paper depicts a man reclining against a pillow on a chaise-longue while reading. It is drawn in the style of a caricature, which is in keeping with other figural sketches in this volume and, more broadly, in the related files Mss Eur F140/232 and Mss E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1871
Extent:
1 drawing; pencil on paper, pasted into volume

543. Mss Eur F140/234/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F140/234/5
Title:
‘Aden – Oct 22nd /71’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter These two small watercolour drawings depict scenes taken from life at the Settlement of Aden in 1871. Both drawings focus on Arabs’ use of camels as a form of transport. In the left-hand drawing, four veiled women perch alongside one another atop a litter held in place on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1871
Extent:
2 drawings; watercolour and pencil on paper, pasted into volume

544. Mss Eur G45/8, f 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/8, f 28
Title:
‘Chota Aden 11 Novr 1850’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime/topographical view of a coastal region near or at the British Settlement at Aden in present-day Yemen. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows one dhow and seven other craft; one of the vessels in the foregro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1850
Extent:

1 drawing on paper, pasted into volume

545. Mss Eur G45/10, f 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/10, f 102
Title:
‘Aden 11. June going out of Harbour’ and ‘Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube. 16 June 1856’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject matter Two pencil sketches on paper. The sketch on recto, sketched from on board ship, shows a landscape scene looking inland from the harbour at Aden. The range of hills or mountains in the background probably indicate Jebel Shamsan, or the Shamsan Range, often referred to as ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:

2 pencil drawings on one sheet of paper, pasted into volume

546. Photo 430/75

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/75
Title:
Curzon Collection: Curzon's first year as Viceroy
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1900
Extent:
1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath

547. Photo 496/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/10
Title:
Album of views in India, the Middle East and Europe. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views at Udaipur, Mount Abu, Bombay, Aden, Suez Canal, Boulogne, various locations in England, Sialkot, Jammu and Marala [Murala]. Elements: 1 ‘Udaipur: Fateh Sagar.’ 2 ‘Mount Abu: Plains from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-28
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

548. Photo 496/10/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/10/17
Title:
Aden: S.S. "Ranchi"
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the SS Ranchi from Aden. The steamship is anchored in the centre background. Behind it rocky hills rise from left to right. In the distant background on the right two large two-storeyed buildings sit along the shoreline. In the foreground two small boats carry two ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1926
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

549. WD34

Reference (shelfmark):
WD34
Title:
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper

550. WD3110, f 63a

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110, f 63a
Title:
‘Aden. Port as seen on approach from Bombay' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This incomplete pencil sketch shows the harbour at Aden from on board ship. Jagged peaks – described as volcanic on the verso – line the horizon from left to right with two smaller spits of rock jutting into view at either side of the scene. A three-master is indicated a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1839
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper