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‘MAP OF OMÂN SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL TRIBES. COMPILED FOR OFFICIAL USE BY Edward Charles ROSS, Political Agent, MUSCAT’
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 to December 1873. (On its Amalgamation with the B.B.R. Asiatic Society). Edited by the Secretary. Volume XIX.: Article VII (pages 187-198), entitled 'Memorandum on the Tribal Divisions in the Principality ...
'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
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-56
Extent:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album
