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NHD2/303
- Record Id:
- 032-003264845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264845
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00050e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD2/303
- Title:
-
Court Collection
Northern House Gecko (possibly)
- Scope & Content:
-
Court may be Captain H. Court, a Madras artillery officer who was in India from 1799 to May 1819, or Captain Charles Court of the Bombay Marine Service, in India 1789 to 1821. Court's collection of plant drawings was transferred to Kew in 1879 and this, NHD2/303, is the only drawing which has remained in the India Office Library.
Northern House Gecko (possibly)
‘Hemidactylus flaviviridis’
Original inscriptions: ‘Guiko’
Further inscriptions: ‘Capt. Court/ Sept. 13 1819’
Artist:
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 223 by 338 mm.
Note: Presumably deposited at East India House in 1819. Sept. 13 has been changed in pencil to Sept. 3.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003264845", "parent" : "#", "text" : "NHD2/303: Court Collection Northern House Gecko (possibly)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264845
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264845
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Bengal style
Calcutta style
Eastern India style - Start Date:
- 1809
- End Date:
- 1811
- Date Range:
- c 1810
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, Natural history drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1962), 101
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Amphibians
Animals