WD4241

f.1 (1) Front view of Addiscombe Military Academy.

Inscribed: ‘Addiscombe. JLM/53’ and on reverse: ‘John Le Mesurier. 1st Class November 19th 1853’.

Water-colour; 21 by 33.5 cm.

f.2 (23) Bridge over a river, 1856.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘at Sewal - Sholapoor Road - from a Sketch of Hancocks’.

Water-colour; 13 by 20 cm.

Note: Presumably a tributary of the river Bhima near Sholapur, Bombay. On the reverse is part of a letter addressed to the Adjutant, Bombay Sappers and Miners, signed: ‘John Le Mesurier, Lt. Engineers’. The drawing must date from early 1856 during his brief period at Poona.

f.3 ‘In Bombay Harbour 1856’ and on reverse: ‘Taken in Bombay Harbour Novr/56’.

Pencil on blue paper; 15.5 by 20 cm.

f.4 (3) ‘The Regulating Bridge Mitrow Canal after its first season’.

On reverse a description by Le Mesurier of the temporary bridge erected at the head of Mithrau Canal. The drawing shows the structure after it gave way in 1858. Beginning on the southern border of Khairpur State the canal was started in 1857 and completed in 1879.

Sepia wash heightened with white; 17.5 by 25.5 cm.

f.5 (4) ‘The Regulating Bridge Mitrow Canal after its first season’.

Sepia wash heightened with white; 17.5 by 25.5 cm.

f.6 (2) Jama Masjid and tombs at Matiari, Sind.

Inscribed: ‘Muttarie. J. LeM’.

Sepia wash heightened with white; 17.5 by 25.5 cm.

f.7 (7) Fortress of Bukkur from the north bank of the Indus.

Sepia wash, heightened with white; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.8 (8) Bukkur from downstream.

Sepia wash, heightened with white; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.9 (9) The Eastern Nara channel, Rohri.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Buckkar on the Narra Jany/58’.

Pencil; 23 by 32 cm.

Note: The Nara Supply Channel was constructed in 1858-9 to link the Indus with the old bed of the Eastern Nara river. It leaves the Indus just above Rohri and the drawing seems to have been captioned wrongly.

f.10 (10) Mosque of Mir Yakub ‘Ali Shah, Rohri.

Inscribed: ‘Yakoob Khans Fort, Arore. Le M’.

Sepia wash highlighted with white; 23 by 31.5 cm.

f.11 (15) Village scene.

Inscribed on original mount: ‘Moromaree nr. Sukkur’.

Sepia wash highlighted with white; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.12 Bukkur, Rohri and Sadh Bela from New Sukkur.

Sepia wash; 25 by 35 cm.

f.13 (17) ‘My house at Sukkur’.

Sepia wash; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.14 (16)’Trimurti’ figure of Siva, Elephanta.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Elephanta July 29 1863’.

Sepia wash; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.15 Minaret and tomb complex of Mir Muhammad Masum, Sukkur.

Sepia wash; 25 by 35 cm.

Note: Poet and author of the ‘Tarikh-i Sindh’, whose tomb was built 1593-1607.

f.16 ‘Rohri - 21.1.73’.

f.17 (24)Inscribed on reverse: ‘Entrance to the Kurrachee Harbour - drawn from recollection’.

Water-colour; 9.5 by 23 cm.

f.18 Crocodile at Pir Mangho, near Karachi, Sind.

On original mount: ‘Muggur Peer’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 22.5 cm oval.

f.19 (13) Landscape, Sind. ‘Ranpitianee’. Repeated on reverse with: ‘/57 Le Mesurier Bedford’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.20 (14) Inscribed on reverse: ‘A Tank at Tatta Decr/57. Le Mesurier. Bedford’.

Water-colour; 22.5 by 31.5 cm.

f.21 (11) Inscribed on reverse: ‘At Gooja. Decr/57’. On original mount: ‘at Gooja near Kurrachee’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.22 (12) Eastern Nara river.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Guroor. Lower Narra/61. Le Mesurier Bedford’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.23 (5) Island of Sadha Bela, the fortress of Bukkur beyond.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Fort Bukkur. Upper Sind’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.24 (6) Tower tombs, Rohri, including that of Mir Qasim Shah.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Sateean Island or tomb of seven maidens. Roree. Le Mesurier, Bedford’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

Note: The name appears to be a corruption of Satinajothan, seat of the ‘satis’.

f.25 River Indus near Sehwan, Sind.

Inscribed: ‘Sehwan hills’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.26 Wayside pool in a scrubby landscape, with distant hills, probably Sind.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.27 Entrance to the cave temples, Elephanta.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.

f.28 Island shrine of Khwaja Khizr opposite Rohri.

Inscribed: ‘Rohri & Bukkur’, with partly cropped date, possibly 1873.

Water-colour over pencil; 25 by 35 cm.

ff.29-31 (18-20) Camel caravans, Sind.

Pencil and wash; 20 by 32 cm.

f.32 (21) Villagers round a well.

Pencil and wash; 20 by 32 cm.

f.33 (22) Girl at a well offering a drink to a camel rider.

Pencil and wash; 20.5 by 16.2 cm.

f.34 Sleeping camel.

Pen and ink on squared up paper; traced in pencil on reverse, 21 by 33.5 cm.

f.35 (25) Thatched bungalow.

Pen and sepia ink; 12.5 by 21.5 cm.

f.36 (26) The same bungalow in a gently hilly landscape.

Wash on tinted paper; 21 by 34 cm.

f.37a ‘Major & Mrs Worsley starting for the ‘Honeymoon’!!’

Pen and ink; 10 by 14 cm.

f.37b A Hindu ascetic.

Inscribed: ‘‘A fakeer’. J.A. LeM. Sept 72’.

Pencil; 11 by 9 cm.

f.37c ‘My second servant - ‘Alphonso Acostino’’.

Pen and ink; 13 by 8.5 cm.

f.37d Horse and rider resting under a tree.

Inscribed: ‘Taken from my tent’.

Pen and ink; 17 by 17.5 cm.

f.37e Man in Turkish fancy dress, part of a letter.

Water-colour; 11.5 by 4.5 cm.

f.37f Man in a reclining chair being fanned by two servants.

Pen and ink; 9.5 by 12.5 cm.

f.38 Westerns Ghats near Mahabaleshwar.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Down the Yenna Valley. 25.4.84’.

Water-colour; 25 by 35 cm.

Note: River Yenna, tributary of the Krishna.

f.39 Inscribed on reverse: ‘From Lodwick Point 27.4.84’.

Water-colour; 25 by 35 cm.

Note: Named after General Peter Lodwick, Bombay Army, the first Englishman to climb it, in 1827, and who opened up Mahabaleshwar as a hill station. His son erected an obelisk in commemoration.

f.40 Inscribed on reverse: ‘From above Dhobi’s Waterfall. 30.4.84’.

Water-colour; 25 by 35 cm.

f.41 Inscribed on reverse: ‘Caernavon Castle from the ferry. Aug. 64’.

Water-colour; 25 by 35 cm.

ff.42-45 Views, North Wales.

Water-colour; various sizes.

f.46 Inscribed on reverse: ‘Mouth of the River Mawddach from nr. Barmouth Aug. 64’.

Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.