WD4593

Small artist sketchbook containing both pen and ink drawings and drawings coloured with watercolour. Folios are annotated with both captions, as well as the artist's notes regarding colour and commentary about the views. The views document his/her journey from Calcutta along the Hoogly and up the Ganges through Bihar (Rajmahal Hills, Munger, Danapur, Revelganj, and Ghazipur). Few of the drawings are dated 1849. Album only contains f. 5-28.

f.5, 'Hindoo Festival [re] P.S. shelving bank near Rampur [?]'

f.6, 'From the Cricket Ground'

f. 7, 'Government House Calcutta'

f. 8, 'Ganges Pilots'

f.9, 'Fort William, Calcutta'

ff.10-11, no 1: 'Letters are delivered to V[?] in the Hoogly'; no. 2: 'Monday, 19th Nov. Saugor Island; no. 3: 'Saugor ab yellow green...'

f.12, no. 1: 'Ra[j]hmahal Hills , 1st Dec '49'

f.13, 'Voyage up the Ganges' and 'Coal Deposit'

f. 14, 'Hindoo Temples of Tin & Coloured Paper, Coolies, and Ganges Pilots'

f. 15, 'On the Hoogly'

f. 16, 'Hindoo bodies floating down the River'

f. 17, ''Paturghatta Point from the mouth of the [Kouuee] River'

f.18, 'Janguerra Point from the East'

f.19, 'Ganges Pilots, my overloaded baggage , ekka for 4 people'

f. 20, 'Monghyr, Dec. 2nd '49'

f. 21, 'Native Boats'

f. 22, 'Landing place, Dinapore'

f. 23, 'Hindoo women in the bazaar, coolies'

f. 24, 'View of the street at Dinapore'

f. 25, 'Narrow water about three miles above Revelgange'

f. 26, 'Ghazeepore Steamer'

f. 27, 'Steamer Ghazeepore aground'

f. 28, 'Thames Steamer, [Mart]abanga cargo boat'