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WD2886
- Record Id:
- 040-003280517
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003280516
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x002ab0
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD2886
- Title:
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Album of 84 drawings of views and figures made between 1858, when Beames left England, and 1862 when he was Officiating Magistrate and Collector at Purnea. Artist(s): Beames, John (1837-1902)
- Scope & Content:
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Eighty-four drawings of views and figures made between 1858, when Beames left England, and 1862 when he was Officiating Magistrate and Collector at Purnea.
Inscribed in most cases with titles and dates.
Pencil, pen and ink and water-colour; varying sizes laid down in an album 42.5 by 33.5 cm.
f.1 ‘John Beames. Calcutta. Septr. 1858. Sketches of places I have been to since leaving England in Febry. 1858. The book in which these sketches were originally fastened was destroyed by wet in a journey from Purneah to Chumparun in May 1866. They have been arranged in the old order in this book. Decr. 1866’.
f.2a ‘Cape St Vincent. Feb. 19 58’.
f.2b ‘Galeita Island Mediterranean. Feb. 58’.
f.2c ‘Ceylon boat. March 58’.
f.2d ‘Tower in the Desert. Suez in the distance. Near Suez. J.B.’
f.3a ‘Part of Ft William. Calcutta. Oct. 28 1858’.
f.3b ‘Cathedral. Calcutta. Decr. 58’.
f.3c ‘Pantellaria. Mediterranean. Feb. 58’.
f.3d ‘Mr Cowie’s House at Seebpoor. Calcutta’.
f.4a ‘Bridge over Banka R Burdwan. Sept. 1858’.
f.4b Muslim tombs, ‘at Burdwan. Septr. 1858’.
f.4c ‘Adjutant’ bird.
f.4d ‘Entrance to Burdwan. Sept. 1858’.
f.5a Mosque. ‘Masjid. Bardwan’.
f.5b ‘Elliott’s house. Burdwan’.
Note: Frederick Eden Elliott ICS.
f.5c ‘On the Hooghly. Decr. 58’.
f.5d ‘Chandernagore. Decr. 58’.
f.6a ‘On the Hooghly above Serampore. Decr. 1858’.
f.6b ‘Boats on the Hooghly. Decr. 58’.
f.7a ‘Temple on the Maidan. Calcutta’.
f.7b Lifeboat ‘‘Pera’ SS. Feby. 12th’.
f.7c River scene ‘at Serampore. 12/58’.
f.8a ‘Cawnpore. February 1859’.
f.8b ‘Agra. Fort and Town from Taj Garden. Feby. 59’.
f.9a ‘Our camp. Goojrat District. Jany. 60’.
f.9b ‘Shalimar Garden. Lahore. March 59’.
f.10a ‘Goojrat from S.W. June 59’.
f.10b ‘Goojrat from the parade ground. August 59’.
f.11 ‘Ford on the Bhimber river near Goojrat. Septr. 59’.
f.12a ‘Gharera and the Pir Panjal. Goojrat Dist. Oct. 59’.
f.12b ‘Serai Doultanugur. Oct. 59’.
f.12c ‘Persian well in our Garden. Goojrat March 60’.
f.13 ‘Our house at Goojrat 1860’.
f.14 ‘Our camp at Arzani Bagh. Goojrat Dist. March 1860’.
f.15 ‘Tillah hill and the Jhelum river from Rasul. Goojrat. April 1860’.
f.16a ‘My study window. Goojrat. Aug. 1860’.
f.16b ‘Tomb at Chillianwalla. 1860’.
f.16c ‘Goojrat (unfinished)’.
f.17a ‘At Bunnee. Goojrat. Aug. 1860’.
f.17b ‘Kharian Serai. Goojrat. Decr. 60’.
f.18 Landscape with tank. ‘Bunnee. Goojrat. Aug. 60’.
f.19 ‘Guru dwara at Mangat. Goojrat. March 60’.
f.20 ‘Ruins at Alimgarh. Goojrat. Decr. 1860’.
f.21 Woman asleep in a boat. ‘Floating down the Jhelum river. Febry. 7th. 1861’.
f.22a ‘‘a noontide rest’ on the Simla road near Amballa. April 10th. 61’.
f.22b ‘Camel drivers. Ropur. Amballa. April 6. 61’.
f.22c ‘Camels. Ropur. Amballa. April 6. 61’.
f.23a ‘Hill coolies with kiltas. Simla. Aug. 61’.
f.23b ‘Charcoal burners. Simla. Aug. 61’.
f.24 ‘Lawrence Asylum. Sonawur near Simla. August 61’.
f.25 ‘Village in the Hills. Simla. Aug. 1861’.
f.26a ‘Ayah’s mother ‘at home’’.
f.26b ‘Khiari Ghat Dak Bungalow on road to Simla. Aug. 1861’.
f.27 ‘Tunnel on road to Mahasoo. Simla. Aug. 1861’.
f.28a ‘Banghy bearer. Simla. Aug. 61’.
f.28b ‘Simla bazar. Aug. 61’.
f.29 ‘Serai Lashkari Khan. Loodiana. Oct. 1861’.
f.30a ‘Delon. Loodiana. Oct. 61’.
f.30b ‘Gateway Tower. Serai Lashkari Khan. Loodiana. Oct. 61’.
f.31a ‘On the Sutlej. Loodiana. Novr. 61’.
f.31 ‘Machiwara. Loodiana. Oct. 61’.
f.32a ‘Tomb. Behlolpore. Loodiana. Oct. 61’.
f.32b ‘Mosque. Behlolpore. Oct. 61’.
f.33 ‘Ropur in Amballa District. Apl. 61’.
f.34a ‘Bengali woman’.
f.34b ‘Boy. Ghazipoor. Dec 61’.
f.35 ‘Chuk Cazi. Arrah. 1862’.
f.36a ‘Striking tents. Belsundi. Purneah’.
f.36b ‘Near Arrarh 62’.
f.37a House and garden.
f.37b Mali.
f.37c Tower.
f.37d ‘Our house. Purneah’, see ‘Memoirs’, p.133.
f.38a Village huts.
f.38b Landscape with lake.
f.38c ‘A landscape by Perugino only instead of that fuzzy tree there ought to have been a stiff group of figures’.
f.38d ‘Cashmeree Boy. Simla. Oct. 61’.
f.39a ‘Sarnath near Benares’, see ‘Memoirs’ p.127.
f.39b Fort with flag.
f.39c Silhouette with palm trees.
f.39d Rigging of ship.
f.40a-c Three small landscapes.
f.40d ‘Elliot’s house, Bulandshahr. N.W.F.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003280516
040-003280517 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur D694, WD2886-2887 : BEAMES, JOHN (1837-1902) ICS 1858-93. Service in Gujrat, Ambala, Ludhiana, Monghyr, Shahabad and Purneah. Author…
WD2886 : Album of 84 drawings of views and figures made between 1858, when Beames left England, and 1862 when he was Officiating Magistrate… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003280516[0001]/040-003280517
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur D694, WD2886-2887
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1858
- End Date:
- 1862
- Date Range:
- 1858-1862
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; pen-and-ink; watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beames, John, administrator in India and author, 1837-1902
- Subjects:
- topographical views
travel scenes