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1. WD540(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(69)
Title:
Burmese Travelling Cart.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Burmese Travelling Cart.’ THE contrast which the elegantly and laboriously carved bodies of these conveyances form with the massive rusticity of the wheels is strikingly odd, but quite in keeping with the principle which is exhibited in the construction of the lower portions of the beautiful M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. WD540(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(66)
Title:
The Mud Volcanoes at Memboo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Mud Volcanoes at Memboo.’ THESE singular objects, in the midst of a little desert of mud, fed by continued streams from the mouths of the volcanoes, are fully described by Professor Oldham in his Report, page 49. The upper sketch is a near view of that seen in the background of the lower, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

6. WD540(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(67)
Title:
The Mud Volcanoes at Memboo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Mud Volcanoes at Memboo.’ THESE volcanic hillocks, resembling gigantic ant-hills, varied in height from fifteen or twenty, to probably twenty-five feet. Those represented in the lower drawing appeared to have dried up, but, whilst engaged upon the other sketch, a shout from the lads direct...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

7. WD540(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(58)
Title:
Silleh-myo.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Silleh-myo.’ ABOUT three hours steaming brought the flotilla to Silleh Myo, a town on the east bank; at some former time, says Colonel Symes ‘an ancient city, which once had been a place of considerable note.’ It was said to be famous for its silk manufacture or trade, but nothing of it was no...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

8. 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

9. 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

10. WD540(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(72)
Title:
Ruins of the old Factory - on Negrais Island.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘Ruins of the old Factory - on Negrais Island.’ REMNANT of the ruins of the English Factory, in which, a century ago, the whole of the Europeans, it is recorded, were murdered.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item