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WD2058

Record Id:

032-003268050

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003268050

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001193

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD2058

Title:

Horse portrait; Beggar Girl, a black horse with a jockey in red and purple, beside a post. Owner, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. Gilbert of the Ramgarh Battalion, Bihar. Artist(s): MacLeod, Alexander Francis Peter (1787-1829)

Scope & Content:

Horse portrait; ‘Beggar Girl’, a black horse with a jockey in red and purple, beside a post. Owner, Lieut.-Colonel W.R. Gilbert of the Ramgarh Battalion, Bihar. c.1825.

Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Beggar Girl. The property of Colonel W.R. Gilbert.’

‘A.F.P. MaCleod Pinxit.’

Water-colour; 16.25 by 19.75 ins.

Purchased 6 March 1963.

Note: For other pictures from the same album see WD2059; Add.Or.2514-2524 and Victoria and Albert Museum, I.S.10 to 16-1963.

Gilbert was a keen race-goer. When he was a General, aged 65, and went to receive Lord Dalhousie near Lahore in 1849, he had just won a racing cup on one of his own horses. See W. Lee-Warner, ‘The Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie’ (London, 1904), i, 276.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Gilbert Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003268050

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003268050

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:

1824

End Date:

1826

Date Range:

c 1825

Era:

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