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Add Or 4127
- Record Id:
- 032-003264031
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264031
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0001e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4127
- Title:
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The Essex, East Indiaman, in Bombay harbour, 1782. Presented by Sir George Birdwood.
- Scope & Content:
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The ‘Essex’, East Indiaman, in Bombay harbour, 1782.
By a western Indian artist, c.1790.
Inscribed round edge: ‘The Essex East Indiaman in Bombay Harbour’.
Oil on glass and card; two pieces of curving glass, one behind the other, with card behind, set in a circular gilt frame; 160 cm diameter, 245 mm diameter of frame.
Presented by Sir George Birdwood, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., 1896; formerly F58, published in William Foster, ‘A Descriptive Catalogue of thje Paintings, Statues, &’c.’, in the India Office’ (London, 1924), no. 58, p.27.
Note: The ‘Essex’ was built in 1780 and lasted until 1798. She was dismasted in a storm in 1782, but towed into Bombay harbour and refitted; this episode formed the subject of four paintings by Thomas Luny, which were engraved by F. Jukes and (the last) by J. Wells. The first engraving was published by Pollard in 1785. The last of the four, the subject of the present version, was entitled ‘Refitted and at Anchor in Bombay Harbour’. The ‘Essex’ is painted on the outer piece of glass, with more shipping on the inner one, and the Bombay Warehouse on the back card.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264031
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264031
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Western Indian style
- Start Date:
- 1789
- End Date:
- 1791
- Date Range:
- c 1790
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: oil paint; glass; card
- Finding Aids:
- William Foster, A descriptive catalogue of the paintings, statues, &c., in the India Office (London, 5th ed., 1924), 58
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Ships
Transport - Places:
- Bombay, Maharashtra, India