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WD540
- Record Id:
- 040-003281507
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003281506
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x002e8e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD540
- Title:
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Album of 106 drawings of landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans made in Burma during Major Phayre's mission to the Court of Ava. 1855. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
- Scope & Content:
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106 drawings of landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans made in Burma during Major Phayre's mission to the Court of Ava. 1855.
Entitled: ‘A Series of Views in Burmah taken during Major Phayre's Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855. By C. Grant, artist to the Mission.’
Many drawings inscribed with numbers and titles in ink.
Pen-and-ink and water-colour; size of volume, 27 by 21 ins; size of drawings, 1-49, 13 by 18.5 ins; 50-72 approx. 8 by 11.5 ins; 73-83, approx. 12 by 8.75 ins; 84-106, approx. 12.5 by 9 ins.
Deposited c.1856.
Note: For details of the pictures see ‘Notes explanatory of a series of views taken in Burmah by C. Grant during Major Phayre's Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855’ (n.d.). The titles given below are taken from the 'List of Drawings' in this publication. A number of these water-colours were used for illustrations to H. Yule, ‘A Narrative of the mission sent by the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855’ (London, 1858): plate 3, View of the Oil Wells at Yenangyoung (540/18); plate 17, The Hairy Woman (540/95); plate 25, Heads of Burmese Notables: The Chief Minister (540/86), The Woon Douk (540/88), The Governor of Melloon (540/91); plate 28, Portraits of Two Talain Young Ladies, daughters of the Native judge of Prome (540/76, 77).
Bibliography: Mildred Archer, 'Mission to Burma 1855', ‘History Today,’ October 1963, 691-9, reproducing nos.26, 33, 43, 44, 84, 102, 105.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003281506
040-003281507 - Is part of:
- WD3-10, WD1602, WD4424 : GRANT, COLESWORTHY (1813-1880) Colesworthy Grant went to India in 1832 and lived with his elder brother, George, a…
WD540 : Album of 106 drawings of landscapes and portraits of Burmese and Europeans made in Burma during Major Phayre's mission to the Court of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003281506[0017]/040-003281507
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD3-10, WD1602, WD4424
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1855
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pen-and-ink; watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Grant, Colesworthey, artist, writer and animal rights activist, 1813-1880
Phayre, Arthur Purves, 1812-1885 - Subjects:
- Portraits
topographical views