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WD4098
- Record Id:
- 032-003268242
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268242
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001253
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4098
- Title:
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Small sketchbook containing views, figure and animal studies. Artist(s): Simpson, William (1823-1899)
- Scope & Content:
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Small sketchbook (ff.1-39) containing views, figure and animal studies, 1859-60.
Pencil and water-colour with some colour notes; album 10.6 by 15.5 cm, rebound.
Purchased 1985.
f.1 ‘Hills at Topechancee from the east nr. Domree. 23rd Dec. 1859. Parianaht’, see: G. Eyre-Todd (Ed.) ‘Autobiography of William Simpson,’ London, 1903, p.93.
f.1v Figures and ‘Dak gharrie’.
f.2 Figures and bullock carts ‘Bahroon on the Soane’.
ff.2v, 3 ‘On the Goolsuckree nr Shergotty 24th Dec. 1859’.
f.3v ‘Roadside police station on the Grand Trunk Road nr Benares. 25th Dec. 1859’.
NOTES: See ‘Autobiography,’ p.96.
f.4 Figures including ‘Railway porter’.
f.4v Figures. ‘Gopeegunge. 25th Decr. 1859’.
f.5 ‘Dost Mahomeds Hotel Cawnpore. 27th Decr. 1859’.
f.5v Figures.
ff.6, 7v Elephants. ‘31st Decr. 1859’.
f.8 ‘Wicket in the Gate of the Juma Musjid. 31st Decr. 1859’.
f.8v Figures and camel.
f.9 Elephants and horse’s saddle. ‘31st Decr. 1859’.
f.9v ‘Native Seikh Cavalry officer’.
f.10 ‘Rajah of Burtpore’s Elephant 31st Decr. 1859. Ornaments on the head of Elephant’.
f.10v ‘Room in Delhi 1st Jany. 1860’. Probably in Walter Fane’s house.
NOTES: See ‘Autobiography,’ pp.96-97.
f.11 ‘Old Delhi 7th Jany. 1860’.
f.11v Animal skeletons. ‘Old Delhi 7th Jan/1860’.
f.12 Young man. ‘Fyzbuccus Cattley’s Kitmugur 7th Jany. 1860’.
f.12v Figures and animals.
ff.13, 13v Figures and purdah carriage. ‘Chokidar Delhi 8th Jany. 1860’.
ff.14, 14v Figures.
ff.15, 15v Bullock cart. ‘Delh18th Jany. 1860’.
f.16 Purdah carriage. ‘A Bilee Delhi 9th Jany. 1860’.
ff.17, 17v Figures. ‘Delhi 9th Jany. 1860’.
f.18 ‘Well in Delhi 13th Jany. 1860’.
f.18v ‘Sham house on cart’.
f.19 Figures with string and bamboo cradle. ‘Delhi 13 Jany. 1860’.
f.19v Figures, bullock cart and charpoy. ‘Bed’.
f.20 Figures and ‘Panipat 15th Jany. 1860’.
ff.20v-23v Elephants and camel, Amballa.
f.24 ‘Howdah, Rajah of Patiallah 18th Jany. 1860’.
f.24v Gun barrel and bearer. ‘Sirdar’.
f.25 ‘Rajah of Patiallah’s Elephant 18th Jany. 1860’.
f.25v Figures.
ff.26, 26v ‘1st Punjab Cavalry 18th Jany. 1860’.
f.27 Children and storks. ‘Pure white in colour Sirhind 25th Jany. 1860’.
f.27v ‘Sirhind G-G Camp 26th Jany.’.
f.28 ‘Old Buffalo Kunnu Ke Serai 26 Jany/60’.
f.28v Carved balcony.
f.29 Horses and ‘Grasscutter, Loodiana 28th Jany. 1860’.
f.29v ‘Sikh archer. Flag taken by the 93d Highlanders at Lucknow. 29th Jany. 1860’.
f.30 Bearer. ‘Loodiana 29th Jany. 1860’.
f.30v Figures.
ff.31, 31v Elephants and figures. ‘Jalundhur 1st Feby. 1860’.
ff.32, 33 Figures. ‘Kertapore 2nd Feby. 1860’.
ff.33v, 34 ‘River Beas 4th Feb. 1860’.
f.34v Camp paraphanalia including saddles and waterbottles.
f.35 Figures and horses.
f.35v Jewellers shop, Delhi, see ‘India Ancient and Modern’, plate XVIII.
ff.36, 36v Figures.
f.37 Goatskin for water.
f.37v Figures and pigs.
f.38 Camels.
f.38v Figures including woman spinning.
f.39v Village scene, see ‘India Ancient and Modern’, plate XXIV.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268242
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268242
- 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:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- 1859-1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 284-285
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Simpson, William, watercolour painter and journalist, 1823-1899
- Subjects:
- Animals
Military
Transport
Villages
figure studies
mammals
topographical views
travel scenes