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WD1477
- Record Id:
- 032-003268033
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268033
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001182
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1477
- Title:
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Miniature portrait, head and shoulders, of Horace Hayman Wilson as a young man. He wears a black coat and white stock; blue sky and clouds in the background
- Scope & Content:
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Miniature portrait, head and shoulders, of Horace Hayman Wilson as a young man. He wears a black coat and white stock; blue sky and clouds in the background. c.1810-16.
Oval, water-colour on ivory; 2.5 by 2 ins.
Presented by Charles C. Wilson, grandson of the subject, 1903.
Note: Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860) went to India in the Companys medical service in 1808. Because of his knowledge of chemistry he was posted to the Calcutta Mint where from 1816 to 1832 he was Assay Master. He was the foremost Sanskrit scholar of his time, also an historian, chemist, numismatist, musician and actor. From 1811 to 1833 he was Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. After retiring from India in 1832, he became Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. From 1836 until his death he was Librarian of the East India Company (the second to hold that office) and Examiner at Haileybury, and from 1837 Director of the Royal Asiatic Society. He died in 1860.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268033
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268033
- 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:
- 1809
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- c 1810-1816
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour; ivory
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 566-567
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wilson, Horace Hayman, 1786-1860
- Subjects:
- Portraits