WD4393

Small album (ff.1-108) in brown leather cover with brass clasp. Inside the back cover are accounts of Java prize money, including ‘cash in hand £364000’ and ‘Guns & Military stores £145000.’ Col. William Eden was QMG during the Java Campaign.

Album 11 by 13.5 cm.

f.1v Detail of Bengal sepoy’s shorts.

f.2 Standing figures,’ Bengal Volunteer. Bengal Palankeen’, and bearer.

f.3 Caricature. ‘Gregory Grumbleguts. Dear me how my stomach aches D__ those nasty greasy cakes.’

f.4 ‘Puckally. Bullock for carrying water.’

f.5 Various figures. ‘Serjt. 24th Foot. Madras, Bengal, servants.’

f.6 ‘Bengal Volunteer Sepoy. Bullock for carrying water.’

f.7 Figure studies, including a syce holding a horse, and two seated men. ‘Bengal sepoys.’

f.8 Small figure studies including Bengal Army private and ‘Bengal Bearer.’

f.9 Small studies, including ‘Bengal Sepoy and his wife cleaning their cooking utensils.’

f.10 Half-length portrait of a young man.

f.11 Men rolling barrels, a group of resting soldiers, and women with water pots.

f.12 Soldiers teasing a woman.

f.13 Group of soldiers resting, one with his wife and child. Beyond a palanquin.

f.14 ‘Palankeen.’

f.15 ‘A Lady airing in her Tonjon,’ and faintly in pencil: ‘John Elliots performance.’

Note: Drawing probably by J.E. Elliot.

f.16 ‘Bheestie or water carrier.’

f.18 Two seated men, ‘Coolies Porters or Labourers’.

f.19 Figure studies. ‘A Dhobee or washerman. a Bengalee at his devotion. Madras Boatman.’

f.20 Man carrying pots suspended from a shoulder yoke.

f.21 A washerwoman, and ‘a Bengal Sepoy of high cast.’

f.23 ‘A Bengal Braminah Bull.’

f.24 ‘Bengal cattle’.

f.26 Group drawing water from a well.

f.27 ‘Bengal Palankeen and Bearers.’

f.29 ‘Madras women carrying water.’

f.30 ‘Bengal cattle’.

Pencil.

f.32 Woman with waterpot.

Note: Possibly by J.E.Elliot.

f.34v Sleeping dog, ‘Sanche.’

f.35 ‘Palankeen.’

f.36 Seated figures.

f.37 ‘Adjutant Birds very numerous at Fort Wm in Bengal.’

f.38 Adjutant bird.

f.39 ‘Serjeant of Bengal Light Infantry.’

f.40 Figure studies.

f.41 Two men on horseback, chatting.

f.42 Mounted jockeys.

f.43 Figure studies.

f.44 Equestrian figures and a man driving a gig.

f.45 Adjutant bird.

ff.46v,47 Jousting knights.

f.48 Carriage and pair with outrider, and a group of men smoking a hookah.

f.49 ‘Sancho Panza. I’m famous Sancho Panza Find a better if you can sir.’

f.50 Large carriage, and figure studies.

f.51 Bullock carrying water.

f.52 Bengal sepoys and a bullock cart.

f.54 Figure studies including bhistie and bearers.

f.55 Bullocks carrying water.

f.56 Bullock cart.

f.58 ‘Masula Boat Madras.’

ff.59-64 Figure studies.

f.65 Bullock.

f.66 Horseman on caparisoned horse.

Note: Drawn on a scrap of a letter addressed to J.E. Elliot. The drawing is possibly by him.

f.67 Man riding a loaded bullock.

f.68 ‘Bengal Body Guard.’

f.69 Head study of a young woman.

f.70 Farmer at work, and ‘Bheestie or Water carrier.’

f.71 Figures around a well. On reverse a bhisti.

f.73 Caricature. ‘Lt.Col.Eden.’

f.74 Head and shoulders portrait of a seated man.

f.75 Goat.

Pencil.

f.76 Rough sketch of a seated man.

Pencil.

f.77 Profile head and shoulders portrait of a man.

f.78v ‘Koodoo Antelope. Cape of Good Hope.’

f.79 Caricature of a smiling man.

f.82 Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white dress and lace bonnet.

f.83 Half-length portrait of a young man.

Pencil.

f.84 Caricature of an army officer mounted on a shetland pony. On reverse a mounted officer.

Pencil.

f.87 Rough sketch of overgrown ruins.

f.88 ‘Adjutant Bird,’ in flight.

f.95v Caricature of an officer holding a baby with an anxious ayah standing by, saying ‘Humko do sahib’, 'Give [the child] to me, sir'.

f.97v Wooden contraption, unidentified.

f.101v Sleeping baby.

f.103 Caricature, ‘Indian King’s Caravan’ and part of a ship’s cannon.

f.106v List of expenses including ‘Hair powder’ and ‘Armorial bearings’.

f.108v Group of soldiers.