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WD137
- Record Id:
- 032-003267948
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00112d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD137
- Title:
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Lord Canning's return visit to the Maharaja of Kashmir at Sialkot (Punjab). 9 March 1860. Artist(s): Simpson, William (1823-1899)
- Scope & Content:
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Lord Canning's return visit to the Maharaja of Kashmir at Sialkot (Punjab). 9 March 1860.
Sitting on Lord Canning's right are Sir Robert Montgomery (LieutenantGovernor of the Punjab, 1859-65), General. H. Wyndham, ArthurRoberts (Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab), and Lewin Bowring (Private Secretary to Lord Canning, 1858-62). Sir Cecil Beadon, Foreign Secretary 1859-60, sits between Maharaja Ranbir Singh and his young son.
Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Lord Canning's Return visit to the MahaRajah of Cashmere at Sealkote, Punjab. 9th March, 1860; WM Simpson, 1860’; inscribed above figures in ink: ‘Mr L. Bowring, Mr Roberts, Gen Wyndham, Sir R. Montgomery, Gov. Gen., Maharajah, Cecil Beadon, son of Rajah.’
Water-colour; 10 by 14 ins.
Purchased 26 November 1954.
Note: Original drawing for W. Simpson, ‘India, ancient and modern,’ plate 30.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267948
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267948
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- 1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 636
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beadon, Cecil, Knight, colonial administrator in India, 1816-1880
Canning, Charles John, 1st Earl Canning, statesman and Governor-General of India, 1812-1862
Montgomery, Robert, 1809-1887
Simpson, William, watercolour painter and journalist, 1823-1899
Wyndham, H., General - Subjects:
- Events
Portraits - Places:
- Sialkot, Punjab (P.), Pakistan