WD4235

Journal with frontispiece, title page and contents, illustrated with water-colours, entitled: ‘Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, and during a residence there. A Tour through the Mysore and Tanjore countries &c.’ ‘&c.’ ‘and the return voyage to England by C.F. Clive’. The manuscript is a copy by professional calligrapher W.H. Ramsey, on paper watermarked 1857, of the diary kept by Charlotte Clive during her visit to India. The originals of neither diary nor drawings have been traced in the Powis or Northumberland collections. At appropriate places extracts from Lady Clive’s diary are included, the original of which is at Powis. At the end are copies of letters from Captain Thomas Sydenham to Charlotte, a description of the Muharram festival at Hyderabad, probably by Sydenham, and notes relevant to the journal.

The water-colours on 1857 watermarked paper are presumably copies after Charlotte Clive or, more likely, Anna Tonelli. Three drawings are laid down and there are two loose drawings, originals of copies in the diary. In addition there are plans of Government House, Madras, and two maps.

References to Anna Tonelli’s drawings appear in the diary but Charlotte makes no mention of her own, although Captain Sydenham suggests in his letter describing the route from Vellore to Rayacottai: ‘‘Having admired the picturesque beauties of this pass (and I trust delineated them’)...’?’’

Album 35 by 30 cm. Crimson leather with gilt crest ‘C.F.N.’ under a coronet and ornate clasps.

Provenance: by descent through the family of Henrietta Clive, Lady Williams-Wynn.

Frontis ‘Government House and Council Chamber, Madras’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

Note: The Governor’s official residence at Triplicane was enlarged in 1800-1 by John Goldingham, who also designed the Banqueting Hall beside it. An identical aquatint view was published by Edward Orme in 1807, including the incorrect title. The Banqueting Hall was never intended to be a Council Chamber. No artist is named but a group in the foreground appears in the diary facing p.37. The building in the aquatint must be based on a later source as the Banqueting Hall was built in 1802-3 and the Clive ladies left Madras in March 1801.

p.1 Vignette of the vessel ‘Dover Castle’.

Pen and ink.

p.4 ‘Don Demetrio Christofolo, Mate of the Polacca’.

Water-colour; 27.2 by 24.3 cm.

Note: A version of this drawing by Henrietta Clive, after Anna Tonelli, is at Powis, signed ‘H.A. Clive, May 23rd 1798’.

p.6 South Africa. ‘Admiralty House Simon’s Bay in 1843’.

Water-colour; 25 by 30.5 cm.

Note: Passengers usually disembarked here and travelled overland to Cape Town to resume their journey. Obviously from a later source.

p.14 ‘View in the neighbourhood of Madras’.

Water-colour; 15 by 23 cm.

p.18 ‘St Thomas’s Mount’.

Water-colour; 16 by 25.5 cm.

p.22 ‘The Red Hills’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 26 cm.

Note: House of James Call, Madras Civil Service.

p.24 ‘St Thomas’s Mount’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 26.2 cm.

p.27 ‘The Admiral’s Bungalow at Madras’.

Water-colour; 23.5 by 29 cm.

Note: Possibly Admiral Rainier’s house at St. Thomé.

p.29 ‘The Island’.

Water-colour; 22 by 28 cm.

Note: House of William Watts of Harrington, Watts & Co, Lord Clive’s private bankers in Madras. Built by Colonel John Richardson, Madras Army.

p.33 ‘Ennore’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25.5 cm.

p.37 ‘Palanquin with Bearers and a Message Camel’. See note to frontis.

Water-colour; 14 by 22.5 cm.

p.37 Vignette of elephants with howdahs.

Pen and ink.

p.38a ‘Mohamed Giaffer. Jemidar of the Body Guard in his native dress’.

Water-colour; 29 by 21 cm.

p.38b ‘Mohamed Subdar. Havildar of the Body Guard in his wedding dress.’

Water-colour; 29 by 21 cm.

p.40 ‘Marianne Louverie. Maidservant, a descendant from the Portuguese early converts’.

Water-colour; 23 by 19 cm.

p.54 ‘Encampment at Arcot’.

Water-colour; 21 by 28.5 cm.

p.58 ‘Vellore’.

Water-colour; 21 by 27.5 cm.

p.71 ‘Ryacottah’.

Water-colour; 19.5 by 25.5 cm.

Note: Rayakottai, hill fort near Krishnagiri, was the first to be captured by Lord Cornwallis in 1791 and ceded to the British by the treaty of 1792.

p.79a ‘Ibrahim. Abdul Kader. Boys, or Pages, alluded to in the description of the Hussin Hassan Feast at Page 79’.

Water-colour; 24 by 29 cm.

p.79b ‘Schiek Baboo. Page in waiting’.

Water-colour oval. 20.5 by 17 cm.

p.87 ‘Beedadee’, see p.87 ‘...It is a very small village about nineteen miles from Bangalore’.

Water-colour; 17 by 25 cm.

p.91a ‘Hyder Ali Khan’.

Water-colour, circle; 14.5 diameter.

p.91b ‘Tippoo Sahib’.

Water-colour, circle; 14 cm diameter.

p.94a ‘The Rajah of Mysore’.

Water-colour; 27.5 by 21.5 cm.

p.94b ‘The Ranee of Mysore. Grandmother of the Rajah’.

Water-colour; 19 by 23 cm.

p.104 ‘The Rajah of Tanjore’.

Water-colour; 27.5 by 21 cm.

Note: Anna Tonelli drew Raja Sarabhoji of Tanjore on 21 September 1798 and sent the result to Lord Clive at Madras. Portraits by Tanjore artists of Raja Sarabhoji and his father Tulsaji were given to Lady Clive; only that of the former is still at Powis.

p.112 ‘View from the Ameer Bagh, Madras’.

Water-colour; 14.5 by 20.5 cm.

Note: This drawing may be an original as it is laid down rather than drawn on the page, and could therefore possibly be by Anna Tonelli.

The Amir Bagh belonged to the Nawab of the Carnatic and became the residence of the Commander-in-Chief. The Clives stayed there while improvements were being made to the Governor’s official residence at Triplicane. It was later the Court of Sudder Adawlut and then the Elphinstone Hotel.

p.117 Vignette of the vessel ‘Castle Eden’.

Pen and ink.

p.124 ‘Simon’s Bay. Cape of Good Hope’.

Water-colour; 18.5 by 26 cm.

p.130 ‘S.E. View of St Helena. Sandy Bay. Diana’s Peak. Longwood. Barn Point’.

Wash heightened with white on grey paper, laid down; 17 by 25 cm.

p.132 ‘Plantation House, St Helena’.

Water-colour laid down; 15.5 by 22 cm.

Note: The Governor’s House.

p.133 ‘Barn Point and the beginning of Longwood Ridge, St Helena’.

Water-colour; 16.5 by 22.5 cm.

Unpaginated ‘Cockatoo upon a Mango tree’.

Water-colour; 21.5 by 14.5 cm.

‘Lory upon a Jack tree’.

Water-colour oval; 25.5 by 16.5 cm.

Three plans, copies by W.H. Ramsay;

‘Ground Plan of the Governor’s Garden House in the year 1798.’

24.5 by 38.5 cm.

‘Ground Plan of the Governor’s garden in the year 1798’.

25 by 33 cm.

‘Grand Plan of the Government House in its present state’.

24 by 35 cm.

Note: The latter is a reduced version of the architect John Goldingham’s plan, drawn for Lord Clive in 1803, see WD962 (16).