WD4391

Album (ff.1-91) in red leather covers with brass clasps, and a paper label pasted on the front inscribed: ‘Wm Eden.’ Some pages with 1809 watermark, drawings in water-colour unless described otherwise.

Album 12.5 by 20.5 cm.

f.1 Head studies.

f.2 Striped tent.

f.3 Three boatmen pulling on ropes.

f.5 Sleeping woman, in a white dress. Beside her a letter addressed to ‘Mrs T Taylor. Oswell’.

Note: Ann Harvey Taylor, nee Petrie, married Captain Thomas William Taylor, H.M 24th Regiment Light Dragoons, at Madras in January 1810. Captain Taylor was Military Secretary to the Governor-General, Lord Minto, and the latter was a witness at their wedding. The couple lived at Government House, along with sons and daughters-in-law of Lord Minto. Ann Petrie was the daughter of William Petrie, Madras Civil Service, Acting Governor of Madras, 1807.

f.6 Baggage camel.

f.7 One-armed army officer.

f.8 Army officer, who appears to have a wounded arm, and may be Robert Rollo Gillespie, whose arm was badly injured during the Java Campaign.

f.9 Servant with large pleated fan.

f.10 ‘Chittagong Bear.’ Possibly a regimental mascot as he is wearing a gorget round his neck

f.11 Seated man reading.

Pencil.

f.12 Banyan tree.

Pencil.

f.13 Small bungalow and garden.

Pencil and wash.

f.14 Ornamental bridge, granary, small pavilion and a thatched hut at the entrance to Barrackpore

f.15 Barrackpore Park.

Pencil and water-colour, unfinished.

f.16 The menagerie, Barrackpore, with ostrich.

f.17 Indian dancer.

f.18 Fort, ‘Paniput.’

Pencil.

f.19 River boat.

Pencil.

f.20v Fox hunting.

f.21 View with mountains and river.

Inscribed: ‘I.E. Elliot. 27th July 1812’.

Note: John Edmund Elliot, see WD1595.

f.21v A leaf.

f.22 Muslim grave, and a skull.

f.23 Cattle in the shade of a tree.

Pencil.

f.24 Serampore from across the Hooghly.

f.25v Unfinished view.

Pencil.

f.26 Mounted knight in armour.

Pen and ink.

f.27 Unfinished figure studies.

f.28 Bengal village.

f.29 Man resting near his bullock.

f.30 Figure and tree studies.

f.31 Unfinished study of a ghat.

Pencil.

f.32 A racecourse.

Pen and ink.

f.33 Mounted cavalryman in green uniform.

f.34 Mounted artillerymen with cannon.

f.35 Seated Vaisnava.

Inscribed: ‘Santoes das Byraghy of Benares. 4 Augt. 1812,’ with letters of the Bengali alphabet.

f.36 Hindu shrine.

Pencil.

f.37 Durga shrine.

Pencil.

f.38 Snake and rat fighting.

Inscribed: ‘A chuckerlaree devoring a Rat sketched from life.’

f.39 Standing woman in a yellow skirt and blue veil, holding a small girl’s hand.

Note: See also f.47, a Malwa woman.

f.41 Governor-General’s House, Barrackpore.

Pencil.

f.42 Indian house and courtyard.

Pencil.

f.44 Agricultural implements.

Inscribed: ‘East India Plough 10 feet. Fowrah or Spade 3½ feet. Courpah for cutting Grass 6 inches.’

Pen and ink and wash.

f.45 Back view of a soldier.

Inscribed: ‘Sindia’s Sepoy.’

Note: Shortly after Lord Minto took office he despatched a military force to quell disturbances in the troubled Malwa area, part of which was ruled by Sindhia.

f.46 ‘Rajepoot Sepoys.’

Note: Drawn during the Malwa disturbances.

f.47 Woman carrying a baby in a portable hammock, and leading another child by the hand.

Inscribed: ‘A Malwah woman and child.’

f.48 Unfinished sketch of a woman.

Pencil and wash.

f.49 ‘Fakeer at Cootab 10 Coss SW of Delhi.’

f.50 ‘Musselman of Delhi.’

f.51 Mounted Indian soldier with matchlock.

Pencil.

f.52 ‘Zemindar returning from the Cutcherry.’

Note: Court-house or office.

f.53 Entrance to a garden house facing the river, possibly Barrackpore House.

Pencil.

f.55 St John’s Church, Calcutta showing the newly-built ramp for worshippers arriving by palanquin, with the north front of Government House beyond.

Inscribed: ‘Govt. House Calcutta. Church’.

Pencil.

f.56 ‘Madras Cattamarin. Madras Musolah Boat.’

f.58 Bungalow in a park, probably guest-quarters at Barrackpore.

f.59 William Eden in his carriage, drawn by two greys. The door painted with the monogram ‘WE.’

f.60 Village on the banks of a river, possibly at Serampore.

f.61 Caricature. ‘Doctor Pangloss LLD & ASS leading out the Lap Dogs’.

Pen and ink.

f.62 Grazing calf.

f.63 Elephant.

f.64 Two tethered elephants.

f.65 Three standing figures. ‘22 Augt.’

f.66 Watercarrier.

f.67 Half-length portrait of a seated woman, wearing a lilac coloured dress.

f.68 Interior, probably at Barrackpore House, with two young women and a young man reclining on day-beds. ‘24 Augt 1812.’

Note: Lord Minto enjoyed the company of young people and there were a number living with him in Government House, including the Taylors, sons and daughters-in-law, and sisters of the wife of his son, John Elliot.

f.69 Group sheltering from the rain under an awning fashioned from a sail.

f.70 Head study of a young Bengali man.

f.71 Punkah-wallah.

f.72 Man on horseback.

Pencil.

f.73 Head of a Javanese youth.

Pencil.

f.74 High-ranking Javanese man in green coat and red and white ‘jarit,’ or skirt.

f.75 East Indiaman, ‘Surrey.’

Pencil.

Note: Vessel of 819 tons, it made six voyages between 1805 and 1816. Lord Minto and his staff returned to England on HMS ‘Hussar,’ embarking in December 1813. They probably passed the ‘Surrey’ on her voyage from January 1814 to August 1815, en route for Madras and Bengal.

f.76 Three frigates.

Pencil and wash.

f.77 Farm, St. Helena.

f.78 ‘High Knoll’, St. Helena.

f.79 Distant view of High Knoll, St. Helena.

f.80v High Knoll, showing the Telegragh and flagstaff.

f.81v Sugar Loaf Hill, St. Helena.

Pencil.

ff.82v,83 St Helena from the sea.

ff.84v,85 Distant view of St. Helena, from the sea.

f.86 Another, more distant, view.

f.87 Flotilla of frigates sailing towards a coastline.

f.88 Horseman crossing a bridge, probably England.

f.91v Birds.