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An album containing 43 drawings, one photograph, and two pages of notes. The drawings are mainly of hunting scenes and camp scenes, and reflect the pastimes of young officers in India during that period. The identifiable places where these hunting scenes took place are around Hyderabad.

Album 26.75 by 21 cm; 89 folios (several containing drawings have been excised). Forty folios are blank. Pencil (apart from ff.1 and 31 in watercolour, and f. 36 in wash), size of drawings varies.

Inside cover inscribed: ‘George Mansel. Lieut. Lt. My. His Majesty’s 30th Regiment’. Later inscriptions: ‘1823’ [in pencil]; ‘Harold Barton Mausch. Given to him by his aunt J Mausch Yatton November /98.’

Donated by Mr Dean Crowley, a descendant of the artist, October 2003.

f.1 Watercolour of a coat of arms, with motto ‘Beau Seant.’

f.2 Pencil drawing of a hunting party. ‘No. 1. Sportsmen leaving a cantonment on a hunting excursion.’

f.3 A sow hunt. ‘No. 2. Sow hunt: The first spear. 1st scene. Gongaloore-’

f.3v Photograph of the tomb of George Mansel, inscribed: ‘The Memory of Capt. George Mansel, H.M. 16th Lancers, who died at Meerut on 19th September 1844 aged 39 years. This large tribute of affection and regard is raised by his brother officers.’

f.4 A sow hunt. ‘No. 3. 2nd Scene’

f.5 A sow hunt. ‘No. 4. 3rd Scene’

f.6 A boar hunt. ‘No. 5. First view of the Boar – 1st Scene – Gongaloore 1823’

f.7 A boar hunt. ‘No. 6. The chase. 2nd Scene’

f.8 A ‘fox’ hunt. ‘No. 7. The lay in – or Fox just starting- 1st Scene – Tarjapilly.’

f.9 A ‘fox’ hunt. ‘No. 8. The run. 2nd Scene.’

f.10 A ‘fox’ hunt. ‘The death. 3rd Scene.’

f.11 A jackal hunt. ‘Jackall breaking cover – 1st Scene. Uallajhabad’

f.12 A jackal hunt. ‘Dogs running in – 2nd Scene.’

f.13 A jackal hunt. ‘No. 12. Death. 3rd Scene.’

f.14 A shooting party above a ravine. ‘No. 13. Shooting Black Partridge. Mulkapoor.’

f.15 A shooting party in the hills. ‘No. 14. Shooting Jungle cock. Naggery Nose.’

f.16 A hunt. ‘No. 16. Returning with hog.- 2nd Scene.’

f.17 Sheet of notes titled ‘Sportsmen leaving the Cantonment on a hunting excursion.’ Dated 1830. In explanation of a drawing now missing.

f.18 A camp site with hunters round the fire at sunrise. ‘No. 17. Sportsmen indulging after a nights watch for a tiger- Sultanpette.’

f.19 Animal heads. ‘No. 18. Fox and black bucks head.’

f.20 A horse, bungalow and stables. ‘No. 19. Beau Seant – an Arab.’

f.21 A leopard hunt, with Golconda-type mosques beyond. ‘No. 20. Striking a Leopard with the spear.’

f.22 A leopard hunt, with Hyderabad in the distance. ‘ No. 21. Firing with small shot, at a Leopard. 2nd Scene.’

f.23 A hunt by Raymond’s Tomb. ‘No. 22. Fawn hunt at Raymond’s Tomb.’

Note: Monsieur Raymond established the French gun foundry at Chandarghat in the 18th century. Chandarghat is a northern suburb of Hyderabad where many Europeans used to live.

f.24 A duck shooting party in the marshes. ‘ No. 23. Duck Shooting & Snipe Shooting.’

f.25 A hunting party beside a tank. ‘No. 24.’

ff.26, 27, 28, 28v 4 cartoons of a hunting party showing how one huntsman’s lack of caution led to his untimely death.

f.29 A shooting party. ‘No. 25. Florikan and Indian Grouse.’

f.30 A hunter shooting a deer near a mosque. ‘No. 26.’

f.31 Watercolour of a bungalow in the North East Indian style (drawing not by Mansel).

f.32 Pencil sketch of a dog.

f.33 Two Indian soldiers. One on horseback, one on foot. ‘GM. 9th August 1838.’

f.34 Sheet of notes describing some of Mansel’s exploits, including an encounter with a cheetah, extracted from Col. Edward Napier’s ‘Wild Sports in Europe, Asia and Africa’ (London, 1844).

f.35 Coloured print showing Europeans in a courtyard.

f.36 A hunting party chasing a boar. Pencil and wash.

f.37 Portrait of a young man on horseback.

f.38 A hunting party camping under an enormous banyan tree. ‘No. 28. Tope of Banyian Trees at Tolcatta – Sportsmen mounting for a march after dinner.’

f.39 View of the Rock Fort at Tiruchchirappalli. ‘No. 29. Hindoo Temple, on the rock, in the Fort of Tritchinopoly.’

f.40 Two hunters in front of the tombs at Golconda. ‘No. 30. The Tombs of Golconda – near Hyderabad.’

f.41 Two officers and a cheetah seated at a table in a room full of trophies. ‘No. 31. Two officers at Breakfast in India – Hyderabad.’

f.42 An army tent being hit by lighting. ‘No. 32. Thunder storm in camp – Narrinapooram.’

f.43 The interior of the tent that was hit by lighting. ‘No. 33. The interior of a tent struck by lightning in the Encampment of His Majesty’s 30th Rgt. On its march from Hyderabad in the year 1826. Narrinaporam.’

f.44 An Indiaman and a grab. ‘No. 34. Pirate staying the good Ship Alfred.’