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Reference (shelfmark):: P1652
Title:: 'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Scope & Content:: 'Habits and character of the people in Persia with the manner of smoking, etc, as practised in that country'. Engraved for Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1785
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD370
Title:: Kewar Bridge (S. Persia). May 1878. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Kewar Bridge (S. Persia). May 1878. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘Kewar Bridge. May 78’; on back in pencil:’ Kewar bridge - Southern Persia. The colouring marvellous and not properly rendered.’ Water-colour; 8.75 by 12 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD371
Title:: Asupas (Persia). 7 August 1878. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Asupas (Persia). 7 August 1878. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘Asupas. 7th Augt. 78’; notes on back in pencil. Water-colour; 8.75 by 12 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD372
Title:: Pah Dinar (Persia). August 1878. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Pah Dinar (Persia). August 1878. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Pah Dinar. 13 or 14. Augt/78’; also notes. Water-colour; 10.75 by 16.25 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD373
Title:: Mountain scene in Persia. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Mountain scene in Persia. 1878. On back, pencil sketch of trees with note: ‘Character walnut trees in front of sketch of Duzdi Roord.’ Water-colour; 8.75 by 12 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD374
Title:: Mountain scene, Persia. Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Mountain scene, Persia. 1878. Survey sketch in pencil on back and inscribed: ‘Place from which I drew the Northern Sheet-17/1/10 Camp’.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD375
Title:: Camp on the Koh-i-Barf or Ice Hill near Shiraz (Persia). Artist(s): Durand, Sir Edward Law (1845-1920)
Scope & Content:: Camp on the Koh-i Barf or Ice Hill near Shiraz (Persia). 1878. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Our Camp on the Koh i Barf-or Ice Hill-near Shiraz where I went to get some angles for my survey some 9,500 feet above sea level’; also other notes. Water-colour; 8.75 by 12 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 Item

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.

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