NHD32-33

NHD32-33

Two volumes of drawings of mammals from the Wellesley Collection.

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NHD32

Volume I. 19 by 12 inches. 117 ff. in water-colour.

Folio 75 is a copy of No.505 in the Buchanan Collection; f.7, an inscription perhaps by Wellesley: 'W. 1802'; f.13, 'A Tyger Cat from Rolificind'; f.24, ' Drawn from the life 1st June, 1793 from one sent from Chittagong by Mr. Crommelin'; f.43, 'Drawn from the life. 1794'; f.46, 'From the life, about nine months old-in the possession of the Earl of Mornington'; f.55v, 'These drawings are from life in the possession of Marquis Wellesley'; f.77, 'From the Mongheer hills'; f.80, 'From Life in possession of J. Fleming Esq.'; f.81, 'Artist Manu Lal, the painter of Azimabad'; f.85v, 'The Building is a small Chapel belonging to the Malabar Christians, a place of great sanctity & resorted to by many thousands of them annually on the first Sunday after Easter'; f.99, 'From Coimbitoore'; f.103v, 'From New Holland.... From a live specimen in the possession of Marquis Wellesley'; f.107, 'In the possession of Mr. Hare'; f.108v, 'In the possession of Marquis Wellesley; f.106 is probably by a Chinese painter.