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101. Godwin Photo 43/1(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 43/1(48)
Title:
[Lerwick.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '3 / 2391-1-1a / H / 9s', sticker with Fay Godwin's Camden Square address. Genre: Landscape Photography View taken from the raised coastline by the side of a bench; an oil rig is visible just beyond some low cliffs. Published on page 208 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (Lond...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1975
Extent:
1 item

102. Godwin Photo 43/2(23-26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 43/2(23-26)
Title:
[Near Clubbs, Shetland.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Sheep roam grassland divided into narrow strips; there is an empty stone enclosure by the shoreline. Published on page 34 'The Edge of The Land' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1987
Extent:
1 item

103. Godwin Photo 43/3(53-57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 43/3(53-57)
Title:
Sheep near Clubbs, Shetland, 1987. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Sheep roam grassland divided into narrow strips; there is an empty stone enclosure by the shoreline. Published on page 34 'The Edge of The Land' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995). Prints 53-55 are titled, signed and priced.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1987
Extent:
1 item

104. Godwin Photo 43/3(61-64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 43/3(61-64)
Title:
Sheep near Clubbs, Shetland 1987. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Taken from an elevated vantage point looking down on a patchwork of arable land; stone ruins are at the bottom right; a stone enclosure with attached dwelling is in the mid-distance with two men tending sheep. A large pond is by the edge of the raised coastline. Pri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1987
Extent:
1 item

105. Godwin Photo 45/1(95-96)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 45/1(95-96)
Title:
[Ravenscar, North Yorkshire.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from a cliff edge looking down to a gravel beach; the sea is calm with a few gentle ripples, headland is on the skyline to the extreme left. Possibly the image published on page 57 of ‘Land’ (London: Heinemann, 1985).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

106. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125

107. Photo 146/1(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(35)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Karanja. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An island, so called, but connected by a neck of land with the eastward mainland. Five miles across the harbour by sea, by land it is a devious route of nearly forty. Two hills, separated by a plain, rise from it, whilst the Nagotna Creek lies between it and the Kol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

108. Photo 146/1(103)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(103)
Title:
Hareshwar, Bombay Presidency Coast, The Konkun. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A curious rift in the cliffs. Stone steps lead down to the estuary of the Savitri River. Bathing in the sea here is one of the rites of purification demanded of worshippers at the sacred shrines at Hareshwar. Across the water is Bankote (Fort Victoria) shore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

109. Photo 146/1(104)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(104)
Title:
Hareshwar, Bombay Presidency Coast, The Konkun. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Effects of wave action on the red laterite cliffs of the Konkun coast. The level shelf of rock in the foreground, pitted with innumerable pools, covered at each tide.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

110. Photo 146/1(147)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(147)
Title:
Tiveri, "Columbus" wreck. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An anchor marks the spot where she struck. Just above high water mark, at the foot of the hill on the left, is the grave of two Austrian women and the husband of one of them. Here occured the wreck of the ship "Columbus", 700 tons, Nacodah Syed Bashumper. She left...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item