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WD1036
- Record Id:
- 040-003282857
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003282856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x0033d4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1036
- Title:
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The Commandant of the Guides, Punjab Frontier Force, reading the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. 1 January 1877. Painted 1881. Artist(s): Simkin, Richard (1840-1926)
- Scope & Content:
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The Commandant of the Guides, Punjab Frontier Force, reading the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. 1 January 1877. Painted 1881.
Inscribed on front in ink: ‘R.’ ‘Simkin. 81.’
Water-colour; 17 by 31.5 ins.
Presented by Mrs. S. Langmore, niece of Sir Francis Howell Jenkins, 2 July 1957.
Note: Brigadier-General Sir Francis Howell Jenkins served in India from 1851 to 1885. He was Commandant of the Corps of Guides from June 1870 to March 1884. Since, however, he was on furlough from February 1876 to March 1878, the officer reading the proclamation is probably the officiating Commandant, Major R.B.P.P. Campbell, who joined the Guides in May 1864 and was Commandant from 1884 to 1891. The Regimental centre of the Guides was at Mardan, a cantonment in Peshawar district.
This drawing was probably worked up by Simkin from a sketch made by, an officer who was on the spot in 1877, so that Sir Francis Howell Jenkins might have a record of the event from which he was unavoidably absent.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003282856
040-003282857 - Is part of:
- WD1036, WD3942-3949 : SIMKIN, RICHARD (1840-1926) Simkin specialised in depicting military uniforms and a number of his drawings were reproduced in…
WD1036 : The Commandant of the Guides, Punjab Frontier Force, reading the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. 1 January 1877.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003282856[0001]/040-003282857
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD1036, WD3942-3949
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1881
- End Date:
- 1881
- Date Range:
- 1881
- 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)
- Names:
- Simkin, Richard, 1840-1926
- Subjects:
- Events
Indian Army
Military