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Subject topographical views Name Grant, Colesworthey, artist, writer and animal rights activist, 1813-1880

1. WD540

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540
Title:
Album of 106 drawings of landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans made in Burma during Major Phayre's mission to the Court of Ava. 1855. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
106 drawings of landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans made in Burma during Major Phayre's mission to the Court of Ava. 1855. Entitled: ‘A Series of Views in Burmah taken during Major Phayre's Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855. By C. Grant, artist to the Mission.’ Many drawings ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

2. WD540(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(1)
Title:
Rangoon - from plaform of the Great Pagoda.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Rangoon - from plaform of the Great Pagoda.’ To the traveller who remembers Rangoon a very few years back, the modern town, but for its great and far famed Pagoda, would be perfectly unrecognizable. Six years ago it was pure Burmese, and its appearance, to European eyes, suggestive only of mea...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

3. WD540(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(3)
Title:
Donabew - from the Steamer. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Donabew - from the Steamer.’ THE interest attached to Donabew arises neither from its beauty nor mercantile importance; but from its having been, during the last war, the scene of one of the struggles with the Burmese, and the death place of their celebrated Generalissimo, Bundoola. The custo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD540(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(4)
Title:
Henzidah - from the Steamer. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Henzidah - from the Steamer.’ THE scenery of the river now becomes as variable as its course is devious. Here, the banks, covered with impenetrable masses of the tall Elephant grass, shut all else from observation; there, low banks and a full river afford views of large plains of uncultivated ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD540(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(5)
Title:
Myan-Oung, from the Steamer. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Myan-Oung, from the Steamer.’ AT Myan-Oung, which is another day's steam journey from Henzidah, and on the same (the western) side of the river, are cantonments for the Pegue Light-Infantry, a body of men raised and organized by Major Nutall. Burmese towns and villages, which are almost invar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD540(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(6)
Title:
Prome, from the Southern heights. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Prome, from the Southern heights.’ FROM Barrack hill. Prome is situated on the eastern or left bank of the Irrawaddy, and at one of the most pictorial parts of its course. The approach is extremely beautiful. The bank towers into a lofty hill, clad in vegetation of the loveliest mossy hue, dot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD540(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(7)
Title:
Kama, from the Steamer. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Kama, from the Steamer.’ QUITTING Prome, about four hours steaming brings the voyager to the picturesque town of Kama, situated on the right bank of the river. Here, rising from the centre of the town, is a very fine pagoda, which appears to have more than common claims to attention; but far ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

8. WD540(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(8)
Title:
Thayet-myo, from the Steamer, looking south. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Thayet-myo, from the Steamer, looking south.’ THIS place is the ‘Sirraip-mew’ of Colonel Symes, and ‘Head Quarters of the British Frontier Brigade’ (‘Captain Yule’s Report, page 228’). It is five miles below the Frontier Magazine, and Ordnance Depot and station of Meaday, and about eleven from...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9. WD540(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(9)
Title:
The Library, etc., on the bank - Thayet-myo. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Library, ec., on the bank - Thayet-myo.’ THE principal object in the second and nearer view of the high bank is a large bungalow termed ‘‘the Library’,’ and is, it is believed, used not only as such, but as an Assembly Room, for any other public purpose which the requirements of the little...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

10. WD540(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(10)
Title:
Thayet-myo, from the Steamer, looking north. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Thayet-myo, from the Steamer, looking north.’ THE view to the north contains an interesting group of pagodas, with the customary tzoums and ziyats attached, but seen from so great a distance are necessarily small and undefined in character.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item