WD4402

Scrapbook (ff.1-141) in green leather covers with gold stamped decoration, containing water-colours, pencil drawings, engravings, maps and Company drawings laid down on lightweight cream paper watermarked 1814. A scrap from an inventory describing ‘Seven sketchbooks (?) the work of Lady Flora Hastings (?)’ loose at front of album.

Album 25.3 by 19.8 cm.

f.1 Three masted ship in a rough sea with other shipping in the distance.

Water-colour.

f.2 Blank

f.3 Leaf insect, Phyllium scythe.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

ff.4-20 Thirty-three water-colours of moths and butterflies, mostly two to a page, with names inscribed below in French.

f.21 Underside of a moth.

Pencil.

f.22 Two pencil drawings, one of a gateway beside a river signed’ C D’Oyly’; the other a village scene, probably by Chinnery.

f.23 Three small views, two in pencil, the other in water-colour.

Note: Probably by D’Oyly.

f.24 Group of men under a banyan tree on the banks of a river.

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.25 State barge of the Maharaja of Benares.

Water-colour.

f.26 Two pencil drawings, one inscribed: ‘Allahabad from the Benares side, 23d March 1815’, the other a camp scene signed and dated ‘14 January 1815.’

Note: By D’Oyly. These must have been made during his journey to Cawnpore in 1815: he married Elizabeth Jane Ross, cousin to the Marchioness of Hastings, in Cawnpore on 8 April 1815. She would have been staying with her sister Isabella, new wife of Major Walter Raleigh Gilbert, who was Barrack-master at Cawnpore when Lod and Lady Hastings passed through in October 1814.

f.27 Governor-General’s camp with a procession of elephants, camels and horses, snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Water-colour by the same artist as f.25.

Note: See version by Sita Ram, Add.Or.4775

f.28 Map of the road from Delhi to Sikri, 25 miles away.

Water-colour.

Note: A map of the route taken by Lady Hastings when she left her husband on 26 January 1815 to visit Delhi, while he went to Meerut. Lord Hastings rejoined his wife at Sikri on 5th February.

f.29 ‘Moonstone. 2 Seers & ¾ weight.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.30 Mountainous scene by D’Oyly.

Water-colour and bodycolour, varnished.

f.31 Blank.

f.32 Rock with seam of gold.

Water-colour by Sita Ram.

f.33 Two line engravings by D’Oyly, one lettered ‘A Chokeydar C. D’Oyly 3d Jany 1820.’, the other ‘A Seik Horseman C D’Oyly 6th Jany 1820.’

f.34 ‘Sugar cane grinding.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.35 A jeweller polishing gemstones.

Water-colour and body-colour.

Note: By a Lucknow artist.

f.36 A pair of black and white mice.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.37 Large house on a hill with a memorial in the grounds.

Water-colour.

Note: This is Hill House at Bhagalpur, built by Augustus Cleveland, and the monument must be that put up to him by the East India Company. See also WD4404 ff.21-24.

f.38 Two pencil studiesof cows’ heads.

Note: Probably by Rawdon Hastings.

f.39 Line engraving of a castle with semaphore tower.

f.40 Silversmith in a landscape.

Water-colour and body-colour.

Note: By a Lucknow artist.

f.41 Pencil study of a calf’s head, probably by Rawdon Hastings, and a hand- coloured monoprint of a butterfly.

f.42 Study of two Indian jewelled brooches.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.43 Pencil study of a cow’s head.

Note: By Rawdon Hastings.

f.44 A Neem tree in a landscape.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.45 Pale yellow bird on a branch.

Water-colour.

Note: Possibly by Sita Ram.

f.46 A fir cone.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.47 Study of conifer foliage.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.48 A fir cone.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.49 ‘Plan of the Park at Barrackpore’, with a key to the buildings, including Lord Wellesley’s unfinished house.

f.50 Large tree in a park, a small bungalow beyond.

Water-colour.

Note: By the Patna artists Shiv Dayal. See another version WD4117, f.21.

f.51 Two water-colours: above, a type of grasshopper, possibly a rice grasshopper, with a grub on a leaf, and below, a larva emerging from its cocoon.

Note: By Sita Ram

f.52 Studyof the life-cycles of a butterfly and a moth, possibly of the genus Danais, the most common Indian butterfly, showing grubs, cocoons, caterpillars and developed insects.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram

f.53 A carriage procession in Barrackpore Park.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram. See version in the D’Oyly album WD4117, f.26, described as the wedding procession of James Munro Macnabb and Jean Mary Campbell and dated April 11th 1820. The water-colours are the same size but the present one is slightly more crisply finished.

f.54 A large tree on the banks of a river, two figures on the bank.

Water-colour.

Note: By the Patna artist by Shiv Dayal.

f.55 A bookbinder. He is trimming leaves in a small press held between his knees, with an unfinished volume before him, with skins and the tools of his trade.

Water-colour and body-colour.

Note: By a Lucknow artist.

f.56 Cream coloured house with pillared portico, probably in Chowringhee, Calcutta, a carriage approaching and a palanquin waiting in the shade. A European couple stand on the balcony.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.57 Blank

f.58 Banyan tree.

Pencil drawing.

Note: Possibly by Mary Fendall who later married John Hadley D’Oyly. See WD4043, f.36.

f.59 River scene by moonlight.

Water-colour by D’Oyly. Below a small panoramic view of a fortified town, with mountains behind. Possibly Switzerland.

f.60 Mimosa, inscribed: ‘Babool Kakar.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.61 Pink lily.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.62 ‘St Bernards Well.’

Pencil drawing .

f.63 ‘Ranza Castle Isle of Arran.’

Pen and ink.

f.64 ‘Friars-Carse Hermitage.’

Pen and ink.

f.65 Study of plant with with long racemes of green flowers.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.66 Xylophone, painted with a design of roses and parrots, inscribed: ‘Malay Musical instrument.’

‘ Note:’ By Sita Ram.

f.67 Butterfly and pupa.

Note: By Sita Ram.

ff.68-9 Termites’ nests.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.70 Study of leaves and flowers of the Neem tree.

Inscribed: ‘Nym (Neem) Tree’.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.71 Gothic style church.

Pencil.

f.72 River scene with waterfall.

Sepia wash.

f.73 River scene with various river craft.

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.74 A carver working on the stone statue of a goddess

Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Sculptor’.

Water-colour and body-colour.

Note: By a Lucknow artist.

f.75 ‘A Syud’s Tomb (a descendant of the ‘prophet’)’ and ‘A Shed.’

Two pen and ink drawings.

Note: By D’Oyly after Chinnery.

f.76 A ruined tomb.

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.77 A village scene beside a river.

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly after Chinnery.

f.78 Detail of an elaborately carved column base.

Grey wash.

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

f.79 Mountainous landscape.

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.80 House with pillared verandas on the banks of a river.

Inscribed: ‘Bagaecha of Campany.’

Pencil drawing.

Note: By D’Oyly. This is the Company’s Botanic Garden House at Sibpur. ‘Bagcha’ is Persian for garden.

f.81 Blank

f.82 ‘Barrackpore Menagerie.’

Pencil drawing.

Below, ‘Barrackpore Park’.

Water-colour

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.83 A town gateway.

Pencil drawing.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.84 A green caterpillar.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.85 Mollusc shells (?).

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.86 Pangolin.

Inscribed:’ The Manis Pentadactyla’ in ink and below in another hand in pencil: ‘Five fingered Armadillo.’

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

f.87 Reed warbler.

Inscribed: ‘4. Sedge bird.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.88 Fanciful animal.

Inscribed: ‘Unicorn from Thibet. July 4th 1820 . L.S.R.’

Pen and ink.

f.89 Bungalow beside a river, an Englishman approaching on an elephant.

Inscribed: ‘Poosah?.’

Water-colour.

Note: By D’Oyly. Pusa in Bihar was the Company’s premier horse-breeding station.

f.90 Portrait by Savignhac after William Havell of H.W. Voysey, MD. Below a note inscribed: ‘For the Most Noble The Marchioness of Hastings, with Dr Walich’s most respectful compliments - The late, deeply lamented Dr Voysey’s portrait.’

f.91 ‘Tamarind Tree.’

Sepia wash drawing.

Note: By Sita Ram. This and the next four wash drawings seem to be studies of the branch structures of the trees indicated.

f.92 Large leafless tree.

Inscribed:’ Bengallee Badnam’.

Sepia wash.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.93 Leafless tree.

Inscribed: ‘Chilta’.

Sepia wash.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.94 Leafless Seemul, or Cotton tree.

Inscribed: ‘Sinool’ and in pencil: ‘cotton tree’.

Sepia wash.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.95 Leafless Peepul tree.

Inscribed: ‘Pepal.’

Sepia wash.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.96 Sissoo tree in flower.

Inscribed on reverse of album page: ‘Sissoo.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.97 Neem tree.

Inscribed on reverse of album page’ Nym.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.98 Peepul tree.

Inscribed on reverse of album page: ‘Pepal Tree.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.99 Small temples on the bank of a river. A thatched house and figures on the nearer bank.

Inscribed:’ Rude (Oude?) Bungaloo nr Fysabad.’

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.100 A tiger leaping to attack a mahout during a hunt.

Inscribed:’ An incident which occurred to a sportsman in Tirhoot. Sir C. D’Oyly’.

Water-colour.

f.101 Various flies.

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.102 A pair of honeybees (?).

Water-colour.

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.103 Portrait, by P.S. (Philippe de Savignhac) after Chinnery.

f.104 ‘A Seik Horseman. C. D’Oyly 6th Janry 1820.’ Line engraving.

f.105 Harvesting rice.

Inscribed: ‘Reaping’.

Water-colour within an embossed frame.

Note: By a Calcutta artist .

f.106 ‘Hindoo school teaching Arithmetic.’

Water-colour and body-colour within an embossed frame.

Note: By a Patna artist.

f.107 Kangaroo carrying its young in a mountainous landscape.

Inscribed:’ Jerboa’.

Water-colour

Note: By Sita Ram.

f.108 ‘Loudoun Castle as in the time of James 5th Earl of Loudoun.’

Pencil drawing.

f.109 ‘Raasay House. A Lindsay delt.’

Pencil.

Note: Raasay House was the seat of the Macleod family, and of the grandfather of Lady Hastings, Lady D’Oyly and Mrs. Macnabb. For Sir Alexander Lindsay, Bengal Army, see WD4064, WD4118 f.11, WD4117 f.22. The previous pencil drawing is also likely to be by Lindsay: his wife was Lady Flora Loudoun Mackenzie. They were married at Government House, Calcutta, in 1820. D’Oyly painted a similar view of the house in oils, dated 1823, see ‘Oil Paintings by Sir Charles D’Oyly, 7th baronet,’ by Maurice Shellim, p17, but with an improbable seascape behind the house.

f.110 ‘Repton Priory, from South West. Js. Basire sc.’ Line engraving.

f.111 A lake with mountains beyond.

Inscribed: ‘John Lindsay. Fort Edward nr. Dungannon Ireland. In his 16th year.’

Water-colour

Note: Possibly a brother of Sir Alexander Lindsay.

f.112 blank

f.113 Boats and ships near the shore.

Inscribed: ‘John Lindsay’.

Water-colour.

f.114 River with steep banks.

Inscribed: ‘John Lindsay.’

Water-colour.

f.115 ‘View from the Entrance door of Mr Macnabb’s Cottage at Wynberg at the Cape of Good Hope. A Lindsay’.

Pen and ink.

Note: James Munro Macnabb was on leave from India 1816-19, and presumably stayed at the Cape then.

f.116 Wild boar.

Inscribed: ‘John Lindsay.’

Water-colour.

f.117 ‘John Macwhirter. M.D. Drawn by Mrs Marmaduke Browne Bengal Fort William July 1820. Engraved by Philipe D.S.’ [de Savignhac]

Note: John Macwhirter, Presidency Surgeon, see WD067 for portrait by D’Oyly. Mrs. Maria Bellet Browne, wife of Marmaduke Williamson Browne, Bengal Artillery. See WD4046 for her portrait attrbuted to D’Oyly.

f.118 ‘The Wild Goat of Nepaul. A native of the Northern Mountains and named Goorul - extremely active- as large as a small sized spotted Deer. May 1821. FH’

Note: The inscription is by Lady Hastings although the drawing is by a Calcutta artist.

f.119 Blank

f.120 Mounted huntsman.

Pen and ink.

f.121 ‘Cattle by Rawdon. April 8th 1823.’

Pen and ink.

Note: A drawing by Hasting’s son, George Augustus Francis (born 1808) made in England, see earlier cattle studies. He had returned to England with Lady Hastings in early 1816, while she returned to India in 1819.

f.122 Swallow-tailed butterfly inscribed below in Lady Hastings hand: ‘Phalarna Luna.Var: from Nepal.’

Water-colour.

Note: By a Calcutta artist.

f.123 Buttercup.

Water-colour

Inscribed: ‘Anemone Ranunculoides Class Polyandria. Order Polygynia. F.E.Hastings. Jany.1822.’

Note: By Flora Elizabeth, the eldest Hastings daughter, born 1806

f.124 ‘Periwinkle. Flora Elizabeth Hastings fecit March twenty seventh 1822.’

Water-colour.

f.125 Various wild flowers.

Water-colour.

Note: By Flora Elizabeth Hastings.

f.126 ‘Pyrus Japonica alba. Class Icosandria. Order Pentagynia. F.E. Hastings fecit. February 4th 1822.’

f.127 ‘Wood Anemones. Flora Elizabeth Hastings fecit. Donington Park. April 9th 1822’.

f.128 Magnolia.

Note: Probably by Flora Elizabeth Hastings.

f.129 ‘Primula vulgaris. Class Pentandria. Order Monogynia. Flora Elizabeth Hastings fecit. March 1822’.

Note: These water-colours of spring flowers were made at the Hastings family seat in Leicestershire and presumably sent by Flora Elizabeth to her parents in India.

ff.130-139 A group of six figure studies attributable to the Patna artist Jairam Das, c.1820-23.

Various media within embossed frames; 195 by 123 mm.

Note: Similar studies appear in the Macnabb Albums, WD4118 ff.35v, 64, 66 and WD4044 ff.44-9.

f.130 Standing Indian woman with a tray.

Pen and ink..

f.131 ‘Chinaman’, standing, holding a parasol.

Pencil.

f.132 Standing Indian woman.

Pen and ink.

f.133 An ‘urddhvabahu’ ascetic with upraised arm.

Pencil.

f.134 Two men working at a still, one feeding the fire and the other filling pots.

Inscribed:’ Distilling.’

Pencil.

f.135 ‘An Ayah.’

Water-colour.

ff.136-9 A group of 4 drawings attributable to Jairam Das, c.1820-23

f.136 ‘Man of Madrass. A Bunya (Merchant).’

Pencil.

f.137 ‘A Native Lady,’ seated.

Pencil.

f.138 A standing man from Arakan holding a parasol, apparently on the Calcutta waterfront.

Inscribed in pencil: ‘Mug.’

Pencil.

f.139 ‘Paursey’. ‘A Parsee.’

Pencil.

f.140 ‘Pig Sticking.’

Pen and ink.

Note: By D’Oyly.

f.141 ‘Tiger Hunting. C D’Oyly 9th Jany 1820.’

Etching.