Search

032-003287790 Digitised Content Yes (unavailable)

1. WD4219

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4219
Title:
Moored boats from Arakan or Chittagong. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
Moored boats from Arakan or Chittagong c.1828. Inscribed on album page: ‘Mugh boats’. Water-colour; 15 by 19.5 cm. Note: Mugh is a name commonly applied to natives of Arakan or Chittagong.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1828
Extent:
1 Item

2. WD4192

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4192
Title:
Circular Road, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
Circular Road, Calcutta, c.1827-8. Inscribed: ‘An unfinished sketch by Tom of the Circular Road; a mosque, a hakuree, a Kuranchee or hackney coach, a police tannah or station for chowkeydars’. Water-colour; 23 by 33 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1827-1828
Extent:
1 Item

3. WD4191

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4191
Title:
Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’ c.1829. Inscribed on album page: ‘Calcutta, Noubruttun-Chitpoor Bazaar’. Water-colour; 18.5 by 21.8 cm. Note: The Black Pagoda, built in 1731 by Govindram Mitter, the ‘Black Zamindar’ (1720-56). In the view published by the Daniells, ‘Views of Calcutta’, 1786...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1829
Extent:
1 Item

4. WD4194

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4194
Title:
The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Inscribed on album page: ‘Ganges near Buglipoor’. Water-colour; 10 by 14.5 cm. Note: Thomas Prinsep was attached to the first experimental voyage, to Allahabad, of a wooden paddle steamer on the Ganges. The ‘...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1828
Extent:
1 Item

5. WD4100

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4100
Title:
View of Chittagong c.1825, showing the Washing Green. From an album compiled with his brother William. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
View of Chittagong c.1825, showing the Washing Green. From an album compiled with his brother William. Inscribed in original sketch book: ‘Chittagong looking inland’. Water-colour; 13.5 by 21 cm. Purchased 1985.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD4193

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4193
Title:
The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, with the city in the distance.. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, c.1827-8. Inscribed on album page: ‘Salt Water Lake. Hollowed date trees as canoes, The Sunderbund wood boats, Calcutta in extreme distance’. Water-colour; 17.5 by 32.5 cm. Note: Prinsep published a ‘Survey of the Salt Lake or Marshe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1827-1828
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD4190

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4190
Title:
The new Mint on the Strand, Calcutta, from the south, with shipping beyond. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
Scope & Content:
The new Mint on the Strand, from the south, with shipping beyond, c.1829. Inscribed on album page: ‘Calcutta’ and’ New Mint Calcutta’. Water-colour; 18 by 25 cm. Note: The new Silver Mint, north of the present Howrah Bridge and designed by Major W.N. Forbes was formally opened in 1831. James...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1829
Extent:
1 Item