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032-003281506 Subject Portraits

1. WD540(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(79)
Title:
Khien Woman.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Khien Woman.’ THESE women, who were small made, and very plain, are of the semi-wild race of people known as ‘Khyens’, inhabiting a portion of the Aracan hills. (See Report page 283.) The faces of these poor women were tattooed over their whole surface; a barbarism which is said to have had fo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

2. WD540(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(75)
Title:
Kiouk-kei. Karen. Kemendine.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Kiouk-kei. Karen. Kemendine.’ FRIEND, adviser, and co-patriot with Kyan-lau-gee, the subject of the foregoing note.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

3. WD540(104)

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

4. WD540(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(74)
Title:
Kyan-lau-gee. Karen. Kemendine.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Kyan-lau-gee. Karen. Kemendine.’ THIS man, who appeared to be very kindly regarded and respected by the gentlemen attached to the Mission at Kemendine, was physiognomically marked by more of hardness and firmness than, probably, generally characterizes the very interesting and mysterious tri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD540(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(83)
Title:
Governor of Pagân.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Governor of Pagân.’ CALLED also the ‘Myit-sing-woon’, ‘a kind of High Sheriff of the Irrawaddee.’ (Report page 34 )
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD540(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(80)
Title:
Moung Toh. Khien.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Toh. Khien.’ BELIEVED to be the husband of one of the Khyen women already noticed, and far better looking than either. The character of the face strongly approximates to the Shan physiognomy.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD540(102)

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

8. WD540(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(78)
Title:
Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Shembaloon, native of Koonyoo. Khien Woman.’ THESE women, who were small made, and very plain, are of the semi-wild race of people known as ‘Khyens’, inhabiting a portion of the Aracan hills. (See Report page 283.) The faces of these poor women were tattooed over their whole surface; a barbar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9. WD5

Reference (shelfmark):
WD5
Title:
Kaji Karbir Khatri of Nepal. Portrait, three-quarter length, facing right. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
Kaji Karbir Khatri of Nepal. Portrait, three-quarter length, facing right. 1850. Inscribed on front in ink in ‘nagari’ characters: ‘Sri Kazi Karbir Khatri, umar 56 baras’; in pencil in English: ‘Kasee Kirbeer Khutree-age 56. A. Kazee.’ Pencil and wash; 15.75 by 8.25 ins. Note: Kaji Karbir ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 Item

10. WD540(81)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(81)
Title:
Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Moung Shwé-Gnyo. Myoke of Thayet-myo.’ MYOKE, or under Magistrate, of Thyetmew, the British frontier station. He is said to have commanded a considerable body of the Burmese against us at the taking of Rangoon, and according to his own history of the event, to have been the last to quit the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item