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WD2443
- Record Id:
- 032-003268085
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268085
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0011b6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD2443
- Title:
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The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Terminus and Administrative Offices, Bombay. Artist(s): Haig, Axel Herman (1835-1921)
- Scope & Content:
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The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Terminus and Administrative Offices, Bombay. 1878.
Inscribed on front in ink: ‘A.H.H. 1878.’
Water-colour; 36 by 62 ins.
Presented by the London Office of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company.
Note: This building (later called the Victoria Railway Terminus) was designed by F.W. Stevens (1847-1900 ), an architect who was responsible for a number of buildings in Bombay, including the Sailors' Home. It was completed in 1888. For an obituary of Stevens, see ‘The Builder,’ 31 March 1900, 325.
EXHIBITED: Royal Academy, 1880 (no.1181); ‘The Raj’, 1990, no.415.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268085
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268085
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- European school
Swedish school - Start Date:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- 1878
- 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, 437
- Exhibitions:
- The Raj: India and the British, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Railways
Transport - Places:
- Bombay, Maharashtra, India