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WD350
- Record Id:
- 040-003281999
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003281992
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00307a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143420032.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD350
- Title:
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Moorcroft and Hearsay on the road to Lake Mansarowar (Tibet). The travellers, wearing Indian dress, and riding on yaks, are shown meeting two Tibetans on horseback with a loaded yak. c.July 1812. Artist(s): Hearsey, Hyder Young (1782-1840)
- Scope & Content:
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Moorcroft and Hearsey on the road to Lake Mansarowar (Tibet). The travellers, wearing Indian dress, and riding on yaks, are shown meeting two Tibetans on horseback with a loaded yak. Snows in the background and five horses in the middle distance. c. July 1812.
Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Kylass Mt. Road to Mansarowar Lake. Mr Moorcroft and Capt. H. and Chinese Horsemen.’
Water-colour; 14 by 20.5 ins.
Note: This may be the incident related by Moorcroft in ‘Asiatick Researches’, xix, 1816, 456.
Reproduced: F. Watson, ‘The Geographical Magazine’, August 1959, 206.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003281992
040-003281999 - Is part of:
- WD344-347 : HEARSEY, HYDER YOUNG (1782-1840) Natural son of Capt. Andrew Wilson Hearsey (1752-98) by a Jat ladyand half-brother of Sir John…
WD350 : Moorcroft and Hearsay on the road to Lake Mansarowar (Tibet). The travellers, wearing Indian dress, and riding on yaks, are shown meeting… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003281992[0007]/040-003281999
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD344-347
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143420032.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1812
- End Date:
- 1812
- Date Range:
- 1812
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)