Drawings on tracing paper, laid down in an album with paper covers. Cover inscribed: 'Outline Pen & Ink Sketches Calcutta & Vicinity'. Some show the same subjects as Sir Charles D’Oyly’s 'Views of Calcutta and its Environs', London, 1848. Artist(s): Wh
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Drawings on tracing paper, laid down in an album (ff.1-24) with paper covers. Album 55 by 37.5 cm. Cover inscribed in ink over pencil: ‘Outline Pen & Ink Sketches Calcutta & Vicinity - by Coll. G.F. White’. Notes on some of the Calcutta drawings suggest White had the preparation of a ...
Drawings laid down in an album with paper covers inscribed: 'Unfinished Sepia Sketches R. Ganges, Calcutta & other parts of India'. As in WD4304 some of the drawings shed light on D’Oyly’s 'Views of Calcutta'. Artist(s): White, George Francis (1808-1898)
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Drawings laid down in an album (ff.1-24) with paper covers inscribed in ink over pencil: ‘Unfinished Sepia Sketches R. Ganges, Calcutta & other parts of India by Col. G.F. White’. Album 54 by 33 cm. The collection can be dated to 1842 by the inscription on the frontispiece drawing. As in WD43...
Album with laid down drawings, some loose, a few by other hands, mostly of western India. Artist(s): Ray, Gordon Meredith (1912-1993)
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Album (ff.1-15) with laid down drawings, some loose, a few by other hands. Drawings various sizes, album 34.5 by 44 cm. Bequeathed by the artist, 1993, as part of Mss Eur F256/1-26. The album was formerly item 24 and was transferred to Prints and Drawings in July 1993. Mss Eur F256 includes ...
Distant view of the Uzina pagoda, Moulmein. Artist(s): Patey, Russell (fl. 1846)
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Distant view of the Uzina pagoda, Moulmein. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Sept. 46. Moulmein Printing office seen from Naval Bungalow, Pagoda to the back. Time morning Weather foggy. Russell Patey’. Sepia wash over pencil; 24 by 34 cm. Purchased 1993. Note: The drawing came from a group dated be...
Hindu temple beyond a group of thatched houses, Calcutta. Artist(s): D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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Hindu temple beyond a group of thatched houses. Inscribed: ‘Near the Strand, Calcutta. Sir C. D’Oyly Bart ad natm. delt 1840’, and on original mount: ‘Part of Old City of Calcutta. by Sir Chas D’Oyly Bt.’ Note: Original drawing for ‘Hindoo temple near the Strand Road’, in ‘Views of Calcutta’,...
'Sattarahtond a Hindoo Temple near Comillah Zillah Typerah'. Worked up from an earlier sketch of February 1839. Artist(s): Layard, Frederic Peter (1818-1891)
Inscribed on reverse: 'View of the Grove, & Cluster of Pagodas, in rear of the British Cantonment, on the north side of City of Baroda; celebrated for the number of Suthees performed there'. Artist(s): Byers, James Broff (1785-1870)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘View of the Grove, & Cluster of Pagodas, in rear of the British Cantonment, on the north side of City of Baroda; celebrated for the number of Suthees performed there. Sketched on the 2d Decr. 1816. Finished here, 20th Jany. 1817. JBB.’ Signed: ‘J.B. Bryers 1816.’ ...
The Brihadiswaraswami Temple, Tanjore, September 1874. Artist(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)
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The Brihadiswaraswami Temple, Tanjore, September 1874. Inscribed: ‘EL. 1875’. Water-colour; 25.4 by 39.5 cm. Purchased 1994. Provenance: The Hon. Mrs. Bonham Carter. Note: Lear's ‘Indian journal’ entry for 20 September 1874: 'This great pyramid is a wonderfully fine thing and, being old an...
Temple in a grove of trees. In the foreground baggage camels and bearers, army tents beyond, with a man sitting beside a brazier. Artist(s): White, George Francis (1808-1898)
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Temple in a grove of trees. In the foreground baggage camels and bearers, army tents beyond, with a man sitting beside a brazier. Inscribed: ‘Temple of Lutchmee on the Ganges R. G.F.W. del’. Sepia wash; 27.2 by 38.3 cm. Note: It has not been possible to trace this temple, probably drawn on ...
Mandapa of the Surya temple at Konarak, Puri District, from the east
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Mandapa of the Surya temple at Konarak, Puri District, from the east. c.1820. Inscribed on album page:’ Black Pagoda on the sea coast of Orissa. October 1820.’ Water-colour; 28.8 by 39.5 cm.
