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Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(97)
Title:: Moung, Share Moung. An Albino, age 70.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Moung, Share Moung. An Albino, age 70.’ AN ‘Albino’, aged 70. The father of this man, as the physiognomy strongly indicates, was a Mohummudan, a native of India; his mother, a Burmese.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(98)
Title:: Pho-men. An Albino, age 17.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Pho-men. An Albino, age 17.’ AN ‘Albino’, aged 17, whose European-like skin, rendered pink where affected by the sun, very light brown or sandy coloured hair, light eyes, incongruous dress, and coarse mouth, produced a painful impression on English minds. The parents of this lad are both Tal...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(99)
Title:: Moung Pho; Taline Clerk to Commissioner.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Moung Pho; Taline Clerk to Commissioner.’ Native Clerk to Commissioner. The smoothness of contour, superiority of feature, and greater softness or gentleness of expression exhibited in this face, than in the bulk of the Burmans, strictly so called, are characteristic of the Talines, or Peguers...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(100)
Title:: Moung-Looglè. Nephew to the Woondouk.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Moung-Looglè. Nephew to the Woondouk.’ This little lad is nephew to the Woondouk (Plate 88.) and possesses the strongly marked features of his family; but is by no means characteristic of the Burman ‘aristocracy,’ or better classes. The young Princes, children to the King, who is himself a ve...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(102)
Title:: Thomas Spears Esq.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Thomas Spears Esq.’ THE only British merchant and resident at Umeerapoora; to whom the members of the mission were indebted for many valuable and friendly attentions. Mr. Spears has resided in Umeerapoora about eighteen years. He was a sufferer by the rebellion of 1852, and during nine months ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(103)
Title:: Father Abbona.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Father Abbona.’ PIEDMONTESE priest of the Roman Catholic chapel at Umeerapoora, where he has also established a school in which he proposes teaching English. He appears to be in the confidence of the King; and was frequently a medium of communication with His Majesty on matters connected with ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(104)
Title:: General D'Orgoni.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘General D'Orgoni.’ RESIDING in Umeerapoora at the time of the late Embassy, who recently accompanied a Mission of Burmese officials with presents &c., from the King to the court of France, and to whom the artist of these sketches was indebted, for various polite attentions when occupied on...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(105)
Title:: Major A.P. Phayre. Envoy, and Commissioner of the Pegue Provinces.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘Major A.P. Phayre. Envoy, and Commissioner of the Pegue Provinces.’ MAJOR PHAYRE, of the 7th Bengal Native Infantry, was appointed to the old Taline Corps in the Tenasserim Provinces, and subsequently to the Civil Department in Arracan, where he rose to be Principal Assistant to the Commissi...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD540(106)
Title:: R.S. Edwards, Esq. attaché to Mission.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:: ‘R.S. Edwards, Esq. attaché to Mission.’ A mission to Ava would hardly be perfect without the customary aid of Mr. Edwards as an attaché. He has become historically connected with Burmah, and the rise of the British power in Pegue, where his services, fidelity and intelligence are as well appr...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD959
Title:: Album of 372 drawings of landscapes, coastlines, costumes and everyday life made during Lord Macartney's embassy to the Emperor of China. Between 1792 and 1794. Artist(s): Alexander, William (1767-1816)
Scope & Content:: 372 drawings (70 folios) made during the voyage to China and during the embassy, arranged in two sections: section 1, ff.1-30 and section ii, ff.31-70. 3 drawings are by other hands: f.48 (67) by J. Barrow, Comptroller of the Household to Lord Macartney; f.49 (74) by a 'Chinese mandarin'; f.64 ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1792-1794
Extent:: 1 Item

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