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WD15, WD337-339, WD1476, WD4461-4462, WD4511-4513

Record Id:

032-003280886

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003280886

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x002c21

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD15, WD337-339, WD1476, WD4461-4462, WD4511-4513

Title:

COLEBROOKE, ROBERT HYDE (1762-1808) An outstanding surveyor and draftsman. In India with Bengal Infantry 1778-1808. On survey duty during second Mys ...

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COLEBROOKE, ROBERT HYDE (1762-1808)

An outstanding surveyor and draftsman. In India with Bengal Infantry 1778-1808. On survey duty during second Mysore War 1781-85. Author and artist of ‘Twelve views of places in the kingdom of Mysore’ (London, 1794). On return march from Madras to Calcutta in 1785, surveyed route. Rest of service passed in survey department, Bengal. Up-country in Bengal, 1785-87; accompanied Alexander Kyd, Surveyor-General, to survey newly acquired island of Penang, 1787; assistant for charge of maps and charts at Calcutta, June 1789; accompanied Kyd to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, November 1789-April 1790. Third Mysore War. Surveyor-General, 1800-08: the first infantry officer to hold this post. Died at Bhagalpur. Brother-in-law of James Blunt.

Bibliography: R.H. Phillimore, ‘Historical records of the survey of India’ (Dehra Dun, 1945, 1950) i, 326-9; ii, 386-91.

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WD15; WD337-339; WD1476; WD4461-4462; WD4511-4513

5 drawings done during the Third Mysore War, 4 drawings of places in Bengal and 1 of the Andaman Islands

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WD4461-4462

Two views of Bangalore and Seringapatam, 1791-92, original drawings for Colebrooke’s ‘Twelve Views in the Kingdom of Mysore’, London, 1794.

Water-colour, pencil and pen-and-ink.

Purchased March 2000.

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WD 4512-4513

Two drawings of temples at Magadi in Mysore, 1791-92.

Pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour.

Provenance: With Thomas Crowe, Norwich, November 1972, where purchased for the William and Mildred Archer collection. Purchased from the Arts of India Sale at Christie's, lot 38 (part), 24th September, 2003

Exhibited: ‘India Observed,’ V & A, 1982, nos. 23 and 24.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

11 items

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-9999

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-9999

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Colebrooke, Robert Hyde, 1762-1808