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WD2967
- Record Id:
- 040-003283006
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003283005
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x003469
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD2967
- Title:
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Album of miscellaneous drawings in India. Artist(s): Vesey, George Francis (1839-1899)
- Scope & Content:
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Painted monogram on flyleaf.
f.1a ‘Cohamul: The swell tailor of Dinapore and the greatest rogue. Augt. 2d 1859’.
Pencil; 17.8 by 12.5 cm.
f.1b ‘Old Cyclops our bootmaker Bankipore Sept. 29-/59’.
Pencil; 17.8 by 25.4 cm.
f.2 ‘Tartars from Tibet Jan 30/60 Dinapore’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.3 ‘My Bungalow at Dinapore. My own rooms are on the left hand side of the House. Tent being mended’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.3 cm.
f.4 ‘My Room at Dinapore. The Punkah is being pulled from the back-room’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.5 cm.
f.5 ‘A Goorkah from Nepaul. Dinapore’.
Pencil; 17.7 by 16.8 cm.
f.6 ‘Monkey Temple & Tank - Ramnuggur-Benares’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.7 ‘My first Bungalow. Benares. Tent being mended. The Men’s Barracks and Midan in the back’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.8 ‘My Side of the Bungalow. Benares from the Stables’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.9 ‘A Punkah Coolie in my Verandah. My Bearer sewing on Buttons. Benares’.
Water-colour over pencil; 25.4 by 17.7 cm.
f.10 ‘Outside my House during the Hot Winds. Benares’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.11 Vesey lying on his bed, a servant holding a fan beside him. ‘Inside a Kuskus Tattee before our Punkahs were put up in our first house. Hot Winds. May 16/60 Benares’.
Pencil with wash; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.12 ‘The Minarets of Benares 1/61’.
Pencil with wash; 17.5 by 17.7 cm.
f.13 Camp scene with the cook churning butter.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 25 cm.
f.14 Interior. ‘My Tent’.
Pencil and wash; 17.8 by 25.3 cm.
f.15 ‘Lambert’s tent. Mine at Sonepore races’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.8 by 25.3 cm.
f.16 Vesey and companion with two elephants. ‘Coming from Chukia - Halfway Halt’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.17a ‘My old Tailor. Ocr. 30th Benares’.
Pencil and wash; 15.8 by 17.7 cm.
f.17b ‘My Chowkidar’.
Pencil; 17.7 by 12.5 cm.
f.17c ‘My Chikari Benares’.
Pencil and wash; 17.7 by 11 cm.
f.18 ‘The Cawnpore Well. GFV’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.19 Vesey and friends with palanquins and bearers. ‘5 Minutes halt going up Country’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 25.3 cm.
f.20 ‘Antelope Shooting’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 25.3 cm.
f.21 ‘Nynee Tal’.
Water-colour; 17.5 by 25 cm.
f.22a ‘A Dandy Dawk in the Hills. July 18th 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 12.5 by 17.5 cm.
f.22b ‘A Pipe on the march’.
Water-colour over pencil; 12.5 by 17.5 cm.
f.23 ‘Salt Water Springs. Nainie. May 23rd 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.3 cm.
f.24 Shooting antelope. ‘My first Barrel in Burkpore’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.3 cm.
f.25 Mountain village. ‘Burkpore. Milum. June 8th 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil.
f.26 ‘Part of the Unta Dhura Pass. June 11th 1861. 18,000 ft high’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.3 cm.
f.27 ‘Guttermamen. Thibet. June 16th 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.2 cm.
f.28 Vesey and his companions sitting around a camp fire. Yaks being loaded in the background. ‘Getting ready for the March in Thibet’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.29 Vesey and friends racing yaks. ‘‘Vagrants again’ June 19th/61. Self. Paddy. Bill Evans’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
Note: Edmund W. Evans, HM 19th Foot.
f.30 ‘The Alluvial Plateau. Thibet. Thursday June 27’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 50.4 cm.
f.31 Officers receiving a Chinese delegation. ‘The message from the Chinese Dumpum at Guttermamen’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25 cm.
f.32 ‘The Tartar Village of Kyunglung on the Sutlege. June 23rd 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 25.2 cm.
f.33 ‘One of our Tartar Advance Guard’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.4 cm.
f.34 ‘Bushe-Bulldog No. 2 Chuprassie’ and two Tibetans with sling shots. ‘Hoonia’s slinging’.
Water-colour over pencil; 25.4 by 17.5 cm.
f.35 ‘Stuck in the Snow in a Hail-storm on Raj Hoti Pass. Monday July 1/61 height 18,300ft’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.5 by 25.3 cm.
f.36 ‘Bampa near Niti. July 3rd 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.2 cm.
f.37a ‘A Hoonia taking a pot shot’.
Water-colour over pencil; 12.4 by 17.5 cm.
f.37b Tent interior with clay fireplace. ‘The BO’s patent Fireplace’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.2 cm.
f.38 ‘My Tent Camp. Horrowah-March 1st 1861’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.2 cm.
f.39 ‘The Taj at Agra, Shajehan’s tomb 200 ft high built of solid white marble and inlaid with mosaic work, about 300 years old and quite perfect’.
Pen and ink and water-colour; 18.5 by 23.3 cm.
Note: By an Indian artist.
f.40 ‘The Maha Rajah’s shooting lodge at Chukia near Benares’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.41a ‘My marching establishment Jany/62. Parking the baggage’.
f.41b ‘Baggage Guard on the march’.
Water-colour over pencil; 12.6 by 17.6 cm.
f.42 ‘The Cashmeer Gate at Delhi Jany. 1862’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.43 ‘My Tent-Camp Goroo que Junnulla. Punjab’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.44 ‘Hackerie on the March’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.6 by 25.2 cm.
f.45 ‘View of the Jelum above the town of Srinuggur from my Bungalow. Cashmere’.
Water-colour 18.2 by 27.2 cm.
f.46 ‘My Bungalow. Srinuggur’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.47a ‘Smashing grain. Srinuggur’.
Water-colour over pencil; 18.2 by 12.8 cm.
f.47b ‘Washing clothes’.
Water-colour over pencil; 15 by 18.2 cm.
f.48a Back view of Kashmiri woman.
Water-colour over pencil; 18.2 by 12.2 cm.
f.48b ‘One of the Maha Rajah’s army Cashmeer’.
Water-colour over pencil; 14.4 by 18.2 cm.
f.49a Woman smoking a hookah. ‘Moiejee’.
Pencil and wash; 18.2 by 20 cm.
f.49b ‘The House where Nour Mahul was married in the Shalimar Gardens’.
Water-colour; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.50 ‘Mosque built by Bahgshah’.
Water-colour; 17.6 by 25.4 cm.
f.51 ‘The Island of Chenar, near Shalimar gardens. Cashmeer’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.52 ‘The Shalimar Gardens. Cashmeer’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.53 ‘The Mar que Nuddee. Srinuggur’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.54 ‘The Town of Srinuggur & Fort of Hurree Purbut. Cashmere’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.2 cm.
f.55 ‘My boat Srinuggur June 23rd/62’.
Water-colour; 18.2 by 25 cm.
f.56 ‘Inside my Boat’.
Water-colour; 25.3 by 17.7 cm.
f.57 ‘Ruodee cudder bridge on the Mar Canal. Srinuggur’.
Water-colour; 27.2 by 18.2 cm.
f.58a ‘The Hurree Purbut & Peer Punjaub from the Lake’.
Water-colour; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.58b ‘Bagging a Snow Bear at 6 yards’.
Water-colour over pencil; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.59 Shooting bears. ‘June 6th 1862’.
Water-colour over pencil; 22.2 by 13.8 cm.
f.60 ‘My Camp at Duggawan’.
Water-colour over pencil; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.61 ‘The Naidiah bridge on the Canal running into the lake’.
Water-colour; 17.7 by 25.4 cm.
f.62a. ‘Mail Cart travelling in the Punjaub’.
Water-colour over pencil; 13.8 by 22 cm.
f.62b ‘My Bungalow at Mean Meer from the top of the wall’.
Water-colour; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.63a ‘A Persian Wheel for Irrigation’.
Water-colour over pencil; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.63b ‘Snake Charmers’.
Pen and ink and water-colour; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.64 ‘Mean Meer, from our Mess House’.
Water-colour; 13.8 by 44.6 cm.
f.65a ‘Hot & Cold Weather Uniforms. Mean Meer’.
f.65b ‘The New and Old ‘Native’ Army’.
Water-colour; 13.8 by 22.2 cm.
f.66 ‘My Orderly. One of the Mooltan Cavalry. Mean Meer’.
Water-colour; 17.5 by 14.6 cm.
With loose drawing of a young boy.
f.67 ‘The Fort and Runjheet’s Sheesh Mahal. Lahore’.
Water-colour; 18.2 by 54.2 cm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003283005
040-003283006 - Is part of:
- WD2967-2968 : VESEY, GEORGE FRANCIS (1839-1899) British Army. Ensign, HM 19th Foot 1858; Lieutenant 1858; Captain 1866; Brevet-Major 43rd Foot…
WD2967 : Album of miscellaneous drawings in India. Artist(s): Vesey, George Francis (1839-1899) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003283005[0001]/040-003283006
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD2967-2968
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
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- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1862
- Date Range:
- 1859-1862
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: mixed media
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Vesey, George Francis, 1839-1899
- Subjects:
- Architecture
Castes and Tribes
Houses
Irrigation
Military
Wells
ethnic and religious groups
shikar
sports and pastimes
travel scenes