WD4401

Scrapbook (ff.1-73) containing engravings, maps, water-colours and drawings by a number of artists, including Sir Charles D’Oyly and Sita Ram, laid down on tinted paper interleaved with paper watermarked 1811.

Album in tan leather covers, with a brass clasp, measuring 20.5 by 26.3cm.

f.1 Four line-engraved maps, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Bath.

f.1v General Sir George Rawdon, Bart.(1604-1684). Line engraving by R White.

f.2 Inscribed on reverse: ‘View of the Position at Rupert’s Bay Dominica’.

f.3 Translation of a Sanskrit love poem.

f.4 Mountainous view.

f.4v Ceylon. ‘Clappenburg head. Trincomalee. J. Mackenzie’.

f.5 Four costume engravings dated 1649.

f.6 Masula boat, Madras.

f.7 Sheep and a cow. Hand coloured engravings.

f.8 Religious line engraving

f.9 A young wild ox, or gayal, in a landscape, with pseudo-scale.

Water-colour.

Inscribed in ink below: ‘Young Gyal’

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.10 ‘The above Vase with two Masks is Antique of Oriental Alabaster, Transparent & most beautiful, Nine inches high & quite entire. a Column of beatiful’ [sic]’ marble of a purple & white Colour was found near its about 5 feet high wch perhaps served as a Stand, as......is very fit for one.’ On reverse: ‘For the Honble Sir John Rawdon Baronett.’

f.11 A buffalo in a landscape.

Water-colour.

Inscribed in ink below: ‘The Bonosus’ [?]

Note: More like a bison than an Indian buffalo, the original was possibly in the menegerie at Barrackpore.

f.12 Governor-General’s house at Barrackpore, seen from across the bridge in the park..

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.13 Horseman. Hand coloured engraving.

f.14 Ant, moths, butterflies and flies dated ‘Sept: 17th & 18th.’

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.15 Spider in its web, only partly coloured

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.16 Stick insect.

Watermark 1818.

Note: By Sita Ram. Unfinished.

f.17 Three small circular line engravings.

f.18 Country house in parkland.

Note: The landscape looks English but the style is very much that of Sita Ram. It may be a copy from another source of a view of Donington Park in Leicestershire, the Hastings’ country seat.

f.19 ‘Nepaull Lime Leaf.’

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

f.20 Unidentified invertebrate.

Inscribed:’ No.2. No.1.’

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

f.21 Engraved portrait of Francis, Duke of Bedford. A. Smith after E.F. Burney from a bust by J. Nollekens.

f.22 Engraved portrait of Sir John Sinclair, Bart. By Wm. Bond after A. Robertson.

f.23 Two engraved maps; Greater London and the City of London.

ff.24-31 Engraved costume prints, four on each page, see also f.5.

f.32 Unidentified 17th century engraved portrait.

f.33 Line engraving of a view with ruined abbey inscribed in plate: ‘Countess of Moira’.

f.34 Upper and lower view of a fish with a suction pad beneath its head.

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

ff.35-37 Three drawings from a set of tradesmen.

Note: By a Lucknow artist:

f.35 A shoemaker.

f.36 Washerman carrying an iron

f.37 Elderly shoemaker.

f.38 Two line-engraved maps; Isle of Wight and Westminster.

f.39 An obsequious Indian greeting a plump, haughty one, who is accompanied by his servant carrying an umbrella.

Note: Probably by Sir Charles D’Oyly.

f.40 A mounted soldier, possibly Turkish.

Pencil drawing.

Note: By the Patna artist Jairam Das, c.1820.

f.41 Elephant and howdah.

Inscribed: ‘Hood lined with Blue silk L[ute?] string lining Red Morocco Leather with carriage worsted trimmings. Jool second scarlet cloth part. N.1: trimmed with silver lace & fringe. N.2: worsted trimmings.’

f.42 List of ships with a group of identity flags.

f.43 Engraved portrait of Madame de Genlis by Henry Meyer.

f.44 ‘Houses of White Ants. see Scotch Encyclopedia’

Note: By Sita Ram.

ff.45-8 ‘Hog Hunting, Plates 1-4’.

Note: By D’Oyly, 1819-20. Not in ‘Indian Sports’.

f.49 Small deer, erroneously inscribed: ‘Llama from S. America.’

Note: One of the animals in the menagerie at Barrackpore. Painted by Sita Ram.

f.50 Half-length portrait.

Inscribed: ‘Maha Raja Mitter Jeet Sing. Bahadur. C. D’Oyly fecit.’

f.51 Adjutant bird.

f.52 Cows under a tree. Monoprint with yellow wash; Signed in plate: ‘C. D’Oyly. 16th January 1815.’

f.53 Two mounted huntsmen with hunting cheetah.

Note: Probably by D’Oyly.

f.54 Unidentified European tomb surmounted by a draped urn.

Note: See also WD4117, f.39.

f.55 Mounted warrior with a scimitar.

f.56 Mounted cavalrymen.

f.57 Two dragonfly-like insects. Inscribed: ‘Septr.12 1821’.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.58 Various beetles.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.59 Grasshopper.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.60 Ruins of the bridge at Pagla Phul, Dacca.

Inscribed: ‘C.D’Oyly. 2d March 1815’.

Note: This was a favourite subject of D’Oyly’s, other versions of it appear in many of his sketch books

f.61 ‘View on the banks of the Ganges.’ Etching by D’Oyly.

f.62 Portrait of Laurens Jans Koster,1635, from his memorial stone.

ff.63-4 Studies of reliefs in the classical style.

ff.65-6 A fancy-dress ball, with Falstaff, Don Quixote, Humpty Dumpty etc.

Note: By D’Oyly in the style of his illustrations for Tom Raw. See WD4118, f.20 for a design for Dr. MacWhirter’s costume as Don Quixote at a ball held on 7 December 1819.

f.67 A travelling salesman.

Note: By the Patna artist Jairam Das, c.1820.

f.68 Unidentified 16th century portrait of a woman, by Bertonnier after Van der Werf.

f.69 ‘Kutkumsandy Pass on the new Road.’

f.70 Design for a coat of arms incorporating elements from those of the Hastings and Loudoun families.

Note: Possibly a design for a transparency by George Chinnery, see two following water-colours and WD4312.

f.71 Design for a transparency, ‘Hastings and Loudoun. December 7 1819.’

Note: Probably by Chinnery and made for the fancy-dress ball shown in ff.64-65. William Prinsep recounts (Mss Eur D1160) that a great ball was given in the Town Hall to celebrate Lady Hastings’ return to Calcutta from England, with several young ladies under her charge. Prinsep says the ball was held on the 13th December, but he is notoriously wrong about precise dates.

f.72 Another coat of arms as in f.70.

f.73 Dog with a rat in his mouth.