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WD2922, WD3207-3208, X436

Record Id:

032-003283032

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003283032

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x003483

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD2922, WD3207-3208, X436

Title:

WALES, JAMES (1747-1795) Born Peterhead, Aberdeenshire; educated at Marischal College. Exhibited portraits at Society of Artists and Royal Academy 17 ...

Scope & Content:

WALES, JAMES (1747-1795)

Born Peterhead, Aberdeenshire; educated at Marischal College. Exhibited portraits at Society of Artists and Royal Academy 1783-1791. Applied to the EIC for permission to go to India as a portrait painter, arriving Bombay in July 1791. He made at least two visits to Poona, in 1792 and 1795, where he painted portraits of the Maratha Peshwa and his ministers and was befriended by the British Resident, Sir Charles Warre Malet. Wales also made landscapes and engraved a series of plates after his own drawings, published after his death as ‘Twelve views of the Island of Bombay and its vicinity’, London, 1800. Explored and depicted the rock cut temples of Western India at Ellora and Elephanta with twenty- four views later used by the Daniells for ‘Oriental Scenery’, Part V, London, 1804. His wife died in childbirth in May 1795, and Wales caught fever while sketching and died at Thana in November of the same year. His eldest daughter Susanna married Sir Charles Warre Malet in 1799. For papers and correspondence relating to Sir Charles Malet see Mss Eur F149. James Wales’ journal for 1792 is in the Mellon collection.

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WD2922; WD3207-3208

Three drawings, 1790s.

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WD3207-3208

Two drawings of the Great Cave, Elephanta, Bombay.

Purchased 1973.

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X436

‘Bombay Views. Twelve Views of the Island of Bombay and its Vicinity taken in the Years 1791 and 1792. Designed and engraved on the spot by Mr. James Wales and brought to this country by Sir Charles Warre Malet to whom they are respectfully dedicated. London: Printed by R. Goodwin, Furnival’s Inn Court, Holborn. 1800’ [corrected in ink to 1804, and with addition in ink’: Published by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn’].

12 coloured etchings both drawn and engraved by James Wales in Bombay with descriptive letterpress, probably by Malet. Inscribed as below, and all with: ‘Jas. Wales delt. et sculpt.’ and ‘London: published May 1st 1800, by Robert Cribb, 288 Holborn.’

Volume size: 50 by 75.5 cm; plate size (except 1-4) 40.5 by 65 cm. Two-part panoramas (1-2, and 3-4): 49 by 138 cm, plate size: 40 by 129 cm.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

15 items

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Start Date:

1790

End Date:

1795

Date Range:

1790-1795

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Material Type:

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Names:

Wales, James, 1747-1795