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11. WD3110

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110
Title:
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album

12. WD3110, f 63a

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110, f 63a
Title:
‘Aden. Port as seen on approach from Bombay' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This incomplete pencil sketch shows the harbour at Aden from on board ship. Jagged peaks – described as volcanic on the verso – line the horizon from left to right with two smaller spits of rock jutting into view at either side of the scene. A three-master is indicated a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1839
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

13. WD3110, f 1a

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110, f 1a
Title:
'His Majesty’s experimental frigate Vernon drawn at sea Jany. 10th 1834 in Persian Gulf' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This detailed maritime scene shows the experimental frigate Vernon at sea in the Persian Gulf in January 1834. In the background high, white cliffs are visible at left. A smaller boat, perhaps a dhow, flies a red flag at left. The frigate flies a Red Ensign as well as a re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1834
Extent:
1 watercolour drawing on paper