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71. IOR/X/3126/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3126/1
Title:
‘Route map of the special mission to Seistan and Mekran. By Quarter Master Sergeant David Bower, Royal Engineers’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Sketch map produced by Sergeant David Bower showing route of the special mission from Ispahan [Esfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] on the Mekran coast. Route of mission indicated in red line with sextan observations points shown by red dots. Boundaries o...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1872
Extent:
1 map

72. WD3274

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3274
Title:
‘Colonel D’arcy Drawings Made During the Embassy to Persia 1810–12’ by Joseph D’Arcy (1780–1846)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains fifty-eight watercolour landscape views of locations visited during the Ouseley embassy to Persia, 1810–12, as well as two handlists, probably created by later owner F. G. McCutcheon c. 1880, two notes from The Graphic magazine to McCutcheon and a newspa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-12
Extent:
Album of 58 watercolour drawings of views of Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, mostly made during the Ouseley embassy to Tehran (1810–12), 1 newspaper cutting, 2 notes and 2 handlists (c. 1880) lightly tipped into a leather-bound album.