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WD484
- Record Id:
- 032-003267972
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267972
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001145
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD484
- Title:
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Album of 19 drawings of scenes in Bombay and S. India together with a few miscellaneous sketches. Between 1817 and c.1822. Artist(s): Cussans, Thomas (1796-1870)
- Scope & Content:
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19 drawings (22 folios) of scenes in Bombay and S. India together with a few miscellaneous sketches. Between 1817 and c.1822.
Inscribed on cover: ‘Thos Cussans Lt. Madras Artillery. Janry 1817’; on title page: ‘Thos Cussans, July 30th, 1817’; also titles in ink.
Water-colour and pen-and-ink; size of volume, 4 by 10.5 ins.
Purchased 20 June 1955.
f.1 Title-page. Scroll with inscription.
f.2v-3 ‘View of Part of the Fort of Vellore, from the Glacis.’
f.4 ‘View of Part of the Town & Bay of Cannanore.’
f.5-6 ‘View of the Fort, Cannanore, from the Bay.’
f.7 ‘The Kushoo Nut.’
f.8 ‘The Callacca.’
f.9 ‘The Cinnamon Leaf & Bamboo Fly.’
f.10 ‘Entrance to the Fort Cannanore.’
f.11 ‘View of the Fort, Cannanore, from the Saluting Battery.’
f.12 ‘Appearance of the Coast, to the Southward of Cannanore showing the Perriah Pass.’
f.13 Ditto.
f.14 ‘A Pattamar boat.’
f.15 ‘Ruins of the temple of the Sun. Palmyra. Drawn from the Engraving in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.’
f.16 The Cotton Plant.
f.17v-18 ‘The Perriah Pass’, south of Cannanore.
f.19 ‘Butterfly.’
f.20 ‘Arab Coasting Prows.’
f.21 ‘The Bazar Gate and Part of the Town of Bombay taken from the Esplanade’.
f.22 Tail-piece. ‘Finis.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267972
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267972
- 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:
- 1817
- End Date:
- 1822
- Date Range:
- 1817-1822
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour; pen-and-ink
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 158-159
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cussans, Thomas, army officer, 1796-1870
- Places:
- Bombay, Maharashtra, India