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Mss Eur G91(270b)
- Record Id:
- 040-003251054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002297772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026879933.0x002fd8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur G91(270b)
- Title:
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A. Bellasis as Lord Fauconberg [at the Viceroy's fancy dress ball, Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Full-length standing portrait of Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis, Bombay Civil Service and cousin of Bowring's wife Katharine, in fancy dress. 'On the last day of the year Lord Mayo gave a fancy dress ball, viceregal orders being issued that everyone under a certain remote age must appear in fitting costume...My wife's cousin...looked the most ridiculous roysterer I ever saw, but called himself Lord Fauconberg. His false moustachios threatened to tumble into his mouth, but he waltzed about like a stunted Rochester so vigorously that his cloak go entangled in his sword, and his Lordship narrowly escaped an ignominious fate...' (p. 270). [Albumen print, 94x132mm].
Subjects = balls; Bowring Collection; European social life; fancy dress
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002297772
040-003251054 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur G91 : Lewin Bentham Bowring papers.
Mss Eur G91(270b) : A. Bellasis as Lord Fauconberg [at the Viceroy's fancy dress ball, Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-002297772[1451]/040-003251054
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur G91
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1869
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 31 Dec 1869
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Bellasis, Augustus Fortunatus, of the Indian civil service, 1822-1872