Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing a woman reeling cotton.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).
The Hathipola, Satrunjaya. Photographer: Sykes and Dwyer
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing gateway and wall painting of elephant. India Museum No. 952. Plate 39 of James Burgess, 'The Temples of Satrunjaya' (Sykes and Dwyer, Bombay, 1869).
Non-photographic: watercolour of an Indian woman wearing hair ornaments and other jewellery, from the International Exhibition of 1872.
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Inscribed in pencil Exh. 1872 Madras. J.J. Fonceca. Copied from original. Peckham 1872. See Patricia Kattenhorn, 'British drawings in the India Office Library' (vol. III, London, 1994), pp. 143-144.
Non-photographic: watercolour of a woman of Lucknow showing jewellery, painted by 'Mummoo' (Mahmud?), c. 1872.
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Picture sent to the London International Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 165, catalogue reference 130.
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a cotton spinning wheel and spindle.
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Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (i).
Designs scratched on rock face, Bellike Valley, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cropped version of or similar print to plate lxxx of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Designs scratched on rock face, Bellike Valley, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cropped version of or similar print to plate lxxxi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Designs scratched on rock face, Bellike Valley, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Uncropped version of or similar print to plate lxxxii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Non-photographic: watercolour of a subadar of the 1st Battalion of the 21st Bengal Native Infantry, inscribed 'Command our lives thro' the medium of our affections. A Subadar, or native Commissioned Officer, B.N.I.'
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One of a series of four drawing of Indian soldiers, probably by a Calcutta artist, apparently the original drawings for J. Williams, 'An historical account of the rise and progress of the Bengal Native Infantry from its first formation in 1757 to 1796' (London, 1817). See Mildred Archer, 'Compan...