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WD3950
- Record Id:
- 032-003268231
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268231
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001248
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3950
- Title:
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Sketchbook of miscellaneous views, mainly in India. Artist(s): Power, Kingsmill Manley (1819-1881)
- Scope & Content:
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Sketchbook (ff.1-47) with drawings tipped in. Label on front cover inscribed: ‘K.M. Power’. Monogram ‘KMP’ pasted inside cover and inscribed: ‘Blanche Power Decr. 5th 1854’. Power married Anna Eliza Blanche Probyn in 1852. Drawings various sizes laid down in random order. Some inscribed, some by other hands.
Album 34.7 by 53.7cm
Purchased 1983.
f.1 Simla showing Elysium Hill and Auckland House.
Inscribed: ‘Coll. Birch’s house. Coll. Havelock’s house. G.G.’s house. My house’.
Pencil.
Note: Lieutenant-Colonel H. Havelock, Persian Interpreter on the Governor-General’s staff. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard James Holwell Birch, Judge Advocate-General’s department.
f.2 Simla.
Pencil.
f.3 ‘Tickaree’.
Pencil.
f.4 Landscape with river and wooded hills.
Pencil.
f.5 Arched bridge.
Pencil.
f.6 ‘Simlah Bazaar from the G.G.’s house’.
Pencil.
f.7 ‘Valley of the Sewnda & Boldong Peak fr. near Sangla’.
Pencil.
f.8 Rocky torrent.
Pencil highlighted with white.
f.9 Unfinished pencil drawing. ‘Delhi 45’.
f.10 ‘Combermere Bridge: Simla’.
Pencil.
f.11 ‘Jackoo. Simlah’.
Pencil.
f.12a. Group of men with camels and cattle. ‘Joosie, Jany. 2 ‘45’.
Pen and ink.
f.12b. Cattle. ‘Maharajpoor. Jany. 13 ‘45’.
Pencil
f.13 Miscellaneous drawings including ‘Sydabad Jany. 1st/45’; watercarriers, Benares; a bullock cart, with cases inscribed ‘Ghooseah. Decr. 7/44 KMP’.
f.14 Unfinished pencil drawings of temples, Punjab hills.
f.15 Engraving of an English country house, pencil drawings of a parish church and a wooded landscape.
f.16 River boat ‘On the Ganges’, sailors on board ship, village huts.
Pencil.
River boat ‘On the Ganges’.
Water-colour.
f.17 Unfinished pencil drawing of rocky landscape, possibly Simla.
On reverse two others.
f.18 Two drawings of goats and cattle.
Pen and ink.
f.19 Miscellaneous drawings including camels, cattle, seated figure ‘A faqqir. KMP’, and bullock carts with army supplies, inscribed: ‘Aoung Jany 12-45’ and ‘KMP Decr. 8th 44’.
Pencil.
f.20 ‘Part of Macao’.
Pencil.
f.21 Unfinished pencil drawing, ‘Back of Jackoo, Simlah’.
f.22 A village hut and two river craft, probably Macao.
Pen and ink.
f.23 Unfinished pencil drawing of a mountain landscape.
f.24 A pagoda and a river scene with moored boats, Macao.
Pencil.
A river scene with hills beyond.
Pencil and wash.
f.25 Unidentified fort.
Pencil.
f.25v An English country house, and ‘Exeter 1841’.
Pencil.
f.26 Group of tribesmen resting under trees.
Pencil.
f.26v Baggage camel. ‘Ooj-ke-Chokee. Decr. 31 44’.
Pencil.
f.27 Miscellaneous drawings including street scenes Macao, a seated musician, ‘A Fiddler 1844’.
Pen and ink.
A group of men resting.
Pencil.
f.28 ‘Camp Simarhea. Border of the Gwalior territory Novr. 1843’.
Pencil.
f.28v ‘Ekka’ and resting bullock.
Pencil.
f.29 Miscellaneous drawings including figure studies, a scribe and temple carvings, ‘Ram-lushman. Nursing. Joosie Jany. 2nd/45. From a Hindoo Temple’.
Pencil.
f.30 Cattle and a camp scene, ‘Decr. 23/44’.
Pen and ink.
‘Gwalior 1843’.
Pencil.
ff.30v,31 Unfinished pencil drawings, Punjab hills.
f.32 Studies of boats including ‘Sinde Boat on the Indus’.
Pencil.
f.33 Mountain landscape, Punjab.
Pencil highlighted with white.
f.34 Unfinished pencil drawing, ‘Sangla Valley’.
f.35 Adjutant birds in a tree.
Pencil.
Village scene, ‘Aug. 26th 1844’.
Pen and ink.
f.36 A hackery.
Pencil.
An ‘ekka’. ‘M Power’.
Water-colour.
ff.36v,37 Unfinished pencil drawings, Punjab hills.
f.38 Lithograph ‘Native of the Western Provinces’ and figure studies.
Pen and ink.
f.39 Distant city, possibly Western India.
Water-colour.
f.40 Miscellaneous unfinished pencil drawings.
f.41 Unfinished pencil drawings including a house and stone bridge, both possibly Simla.
f.42 Miscellaneous pencil drawing including camels, and temple carvings. ‘Been Sing. There were Giants in those days. Joosie Jany. 2nd/45’ and ‘Hindoo Temple. Jany. 2.45’.
f.43 Camp scenes, ‘Chowbey-pore. Decr. 25/44’ and ‘Syed-poor. Taking a Grind. Decr. 25/44’. Also a tethered horse.
Pencil.
f.44 Unfinished pencil drawing, waterfront, Macao.
f.45 Unfinished pencil drawing, Punjab hills.
f.46 Two lithographs, ‘The Mofussilite’ and ‘In the Ditch’ by Scrooge, 1845.
f.47 Carriage and pair with Indian passengers. ‘Scrooge delt. 1845’.
Lithograph.
Inside back cover: ‘Memorandum. The remainder of Pte F. Bartlett’s punishment viz the stoppage of One penny a day is remitted - from this date. W. Hamilton. Cornet & Adjutant. 9th Lancers. Camp Gwalior. January 10th 1844’.
On reverse: A fort with tents and bearers in the foreground.
Pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268231
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268231
- 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:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1845
- Date Range:
- c 1841-1845
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: mixed media
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 257-258
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Power, Kingsmill Manley, 1819-1881
- Subjects:
- Boats
Hill Stations
Transport
Villages
topographical views - Places:
- Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, Macao, Guangdong, China, Simla