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NHD5/765-769
- Record Id:
- 032-003273415
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003273415
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000ef3
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- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD5/765-769
- Title:
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NHD5/765-769 Five drawings in watercolour, pencil and oil on thin canvas depicting Indian mammals: bound in a volume measuring 21 inches by 14 inches. ...
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NHD5/765-769
Five drawings in watercolour, pencil and oil on thin canvas depicting Indian mammals: bound in a volume measuring 21 inches by 14 inches.
The collection was made by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-94) in Nepal and Darjeeling some time between 1820 and 1858. (For Hodgson, see Archer's Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, pp.11-12.)
From faint pencil inscriptions in Nagari on Nos.766 and 767, the draughtsmen would appear to be Hindus from Bihar or the United Provinces.
The drawings were apparently sent to the Library together with a memo and specimens. No.765 is inscribed, 'B.H. Hodgson: unpublished. To be published with description from the present memo & skins & sculls.' Nos.765 and 767 are inscribed, 'To be returned to East India House', and No.766, a drawing of the same subject as 765 is inscribed, 'To be returned to Dr. Horsfield'.
765 and 766 are both drawings of the same subject, the ‘Neodon Sikimensis’. A specimen of this vole was sent to India House in 1852.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Hodgson Collection
Natural History Drawings - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003273415
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- NHD5/765 : Sikkim Vole
NHD5/766 : Sikkim Vole
NHD5/767 : Hog Badger
NHD5/768 : Shawl or Cashmere Goats (Changra)
NHD5/769 : Long-haired Sheep
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1820
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- 1820-1858
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)