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WD4417
- Record Id:
- 032-003268339
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268339
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0012b4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143421647.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4417
- Title:
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Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing. Artist(s): Porter, John Young (1780-1812)
- Scope & Content:
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Palladian garden house in a wooded park, the front steps crowned with a pair of classical urns. Two ascetics, and a woman paying respects, stand before the house, one of the ascetics holding a staff in one hand and extending the other in blessing.
Inscribed on reverse of original mount, now missing: ‘Holy Men outside Sir Thomas Strange’s House, 1811.’
Water-colour heightened with white; 57.7 by 82.5 cm.
Purchased 1995.
Note: SirThomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756-1841), son of Sir Robert Strange, artist. Called to the Bar in 1785. Appointed Chief Justice of Nova Scotia in 1791. Recorder of Madras, 1798. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Madras, 1800, when the Recorder’s Court was abolished. He commanded two of the four companies of Madras Militia and effected the collapse of a mutiny by the Company’s officers in 1806. He returned to England in 1817 and published ‘Elements of Hindu Law’, London, 1825.
It is unclear where this house was situated. In ‘Vestiges of old Madras,’ vol III, p.474, H.D. Cotton notes that Strange lived at Brodie Castle on the banks of the Adyar River, but even allowing for later renovations this house bears no resemblance to photographs of Brodie Castle taken in the 1860s and there is no record of its having been rebuilt.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268339
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268339
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143421647.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1811
- End Date:
- 1811
- Date Range:
- 1811
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)