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WD3089
- Record Id:
- 040-003974725
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003281012
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100133257556.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3089
- Title:
- Album of 40 drawings that appear to have been made during periods of duty in Central India and while on furlough and sick leave. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
- Scope & Content:
- f.1 Panhala fort, Kolhapur State. Inscribed: ‘The Gate of Panulla from ye outside CWC 1846’ and on reverse: ‘The Outside of the Western Gate at Penulla, here it was that all the hard fighting took place when the fort was stormed’. Below: ‘No.1. Exterior of the Western Gate of Penulla, a Mahratta Fortress’. f.2 Inscribed: ‘The gate of Penulla 1846’ and on reverse: ‘The inside of the Western Gate of Penulla’. Below: ‘No.2. Interior of the Western Gateway of Penulla’. f.3 Gersoppa Falls. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The falls of Garsippa in the north of Canara said to be the highest in the world, the water when full falls over the entire horseshoe in an unbroken fall of 1000 ft to the bottom, the larger pool has been fathomed, the plummet descended 300 ft before it touched bottom. The river runs underground for some miles coming up again about 20 miles from the sea’. Below: ‘No.3. The Falls of Garsippa, on the Western Coast said to be the highest in the world’. f.4 ‘A view down the valley of the Garsippa falls taken from the top of the rock in the very middle of the horse shoe’. Below: ‘No.4. View down the valley of the Garsippa falls taken from the middle of the Horseshoe’. f.5a Shikar party returning to camp. Inscribed on reverse: ‘A peep into the low country, March 14th 47. CWC’s tent in the Neilghery hills’. Below: ‘No.5. CWC’s tent on the Neilgherry hills’. f.5b Illustration for Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Woodstock’. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Vide 1st vol. of Woodstock. This is my second pictorial effort but you see I cannot get beyond the figures as yet and the expression of the faces is not so good as it might be, however, that it in some measure owing to their small size, it is impossible to bring them out so well as if they were bigger’. Below: ‘Tent study during rain on the Neilgherries’. f.6 Kundah hills, Nilgiris. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Look down from the top of the Cliff. Khoondas April 6th 47 Neilgherries’. Below: ‘No.7. View down the top of the Cliff, Khoondas. Neilgherries’. f.7 Man shooting sambar. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The edge of the belt, Khoondas, Neilgherries March 31, 47’. Below: ‘No.8.’ ‘The edge of the belt, Khoondas, Neilgherries Stalking Ibex’. f.8 Waterfall, Kotagiri, Nilgiris. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The St Katherine falls near Kotagherry. I have not finished this for the paper’s so bad I cannot work on it. Oct 15th 47. I have finished it on the march after a fashion as I had nothing to do but it is not a very creditable performance’. Below: ‘No.9. The St Katherine falls near Kotagherry’ f.10 Inscribed on reverse: ‘The hunting box of the old Saugor Rajahs’, repeated below with ‘No.11’. f.11 The fort and town of Saugor seen from across the lake. Below: ‘No.12. Saugor Lake’. f.12 Buddhist remains, Sanchi. Below: ‘No.13. Remains of old Bhuddist temples, near Bhopal’. f.14 Cave temple, Udayagiri. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The cave temples in the Oodeghur Hills near Bhilsa June 3rd’. Repeated below with ‘No.15’. f.15 The lingam, Saivite temple, Bhojpur. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The great lingam of Bhoojpoor July 1850’. Repeated below with ‘No.16’. f.16 Jain temple, Gyaraspur. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Old Jain temple of Gorrisapoor’. Repeated below with ‘No.17.’ f.17 An ascetic outside his cave Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Faqueer’s den. March 1857’. Repeated below with ‘No.18’. f.18 Fort at Dhamoni. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Dhamonee’. Below: ‘No.19. Old Boondela stronghold of Dhamonee, near Saugor’. f.19 Two hunters with rifles watch as their bearer throws a firework into a cave. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Dickson’s cave’. ‘Below: No.20. A Bear’s den, and the process by which the truant is ejected therefrom’. f.20 The fair at Barmhan at the junction of the Narbada and Warahi rivers. A sepoy stands guard outside a tent in the foreground. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The great Fair of the Burman Ghat on the Nerbuddah. Decr. 52’. Repeated below with ‘No.21’. f.21 Ghat on the Sonar river. Inscribed on reverse: ‘View up the river at Hutta at the fishing ghauts where the turtles took my baits and bullied me horribly. I couldn’t catch a fish for them. This is the freest and best sketch I have ever made up - 1849. Water and figures especially good - for me’. Below: ‘No.22. View up the river at Hullah’. f.22 Temple and banyan tree, Amarkantak. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Umerkuntuk Burr tree’. Below: ‘No.23. Curious Temple and Burr tree at Umerkuntuk’. f.23 Temple, Laphagarh, Bilaspur. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The old temple in Lafagur’. Below: ‘No.24. The old temple in Lafagur in the deep jungle-never before seen by European eyes’. f.24 Jungle scene with buffalo. ‘No.25. The lair of the wild Buffalo’. f.25 Wild buffalo with shikar party approaching. Inscribed on reverse: ‘At Khoonk Sara’. Below: ‘No.26. Wild Buffaloes in their wallow’. f.26 Mounted hunters at a bear hunt. A bear carrying two cubs on her back in the foreground. f.27 Palace of Hirde Sar, Ramnagar. Women carrying waterpots pass by and a European sits talking to an ascetic in the foreground. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Palace of the Old Goand Kings at Ramnuggur on the Nerbuddah’. Repeated below with ‘No.28’. f.28 Two hunters with Bharia Bhumia guides who carry axes and bows and arrows. Below: ‘No.29. The Boomiahs. Aboriginal savages of India tracking up a wounded beast by the blood’. f.29 The Madan Mahal, Garha. Below: ‘No.30. Quaint idea of some old Hindu Rajah near Jubbulpoor the present inhabitants are the bees, and the Lungoors, the big white apes’. f.30 Steep sided rocky gorge with a bear in the foreground. Below: ‘No.31. The Gates of the jungle’. f.31 Tomb of Akbar, Sikandra. In the foreground an armed guard escorts three fettered prisoners to work in the garden. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The Emperor Akbar’s Mausoleum at Agra’. Below: ‘No.32. Tomb of the Emperor Akbar in Agra’. f.32 Birds-eye view of River Jumna from Agra Fort with the bridge of boats in the distance. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Agra’. Below: ‘No.33. The River Jumna at Agra from the Fort’. f.33 View of Firoz Shah’s pillar with Delhi beyond, ruined tombs with vultures, a pariah dog and an adjutant bird in the foreground. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Scene amongst the ruins of old Dhelee with the lat of Firoze and the present city of New Dhelee in the distance’. Below: ‘No.34. Sketch in the ruins of old Delhi’. f.34 Distant view of Mussoorie. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Mussorie, Hill Station. Distant peaks are the snowy range, Hymalayas’. Below: ‘No.35. Mussoorie a Hill Station Hymalayas’. f.35a A European rests on some steps while his horse is watered. Inscribed on reverse: ‘These are lot of scribbled ideas done on the line of march with the first thing that came to hand and just whatever was before me’. Below: ‘No.36. Sketch made on the line of march’. f.35b Two men playing ‘pachisi’ on a verandah watched by others. Below: ‘No.37. Game of Pachisi a sort of Indian fox and goose’. f.36 Three drawings of thugs. f.36a ‘Durga-dalad. A noted thug leader 1851’. Below: ‘No.38. Durga Dalect’. f.36b ‘Chabidia Aman Sahib. A noted thug leader’. Below: ‘No.39. Chabida Amaun’. f.36c A group of thugs with Indian court officials. Inscribed on reverse: ‘Reajah hasim Khan - Sudda Ameer - Isman Khan - Head jemadar of the thugs - Kaliasdad - Gowla - a thug Seapoy - 1851’, and identified with notes below. f.37a Seated man with multicoloured turban. Inscribed: ‘Master Chatty CWC 1846’. Below: ‘CWC’s servant Chatty. The only native of C’s party who survived the Cholera which broke out on their march between Bellary and Belgaum in May 1845. No.41’. f.37b Carved pillar, Kalyan Mandapa, Vellore. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The pillar of a Hindu temple. Pedestal and Capital grey granite. Figure green syenite (I think). This is rather a simple ornamented pillar and therefore you may form some idea what a highly finished one must be. Generally speaking the flat roofs of the temples are supported by pillars in profusion all more or less carved over with figures. The place I took this from is a very fine temple in the fort of Vellore now converted into the arsenal, for Tippo when he took Vellore, defiled it forever as a place of worship by killing a cow in the sanctum sanctorum and sprinkling its blood on the lintels and threshold of the entrance gate. There is in this temple too, a curious treasure chamber underground the entrance to which is a shaft from this well, a subterraneous passage communicates with the fort ditch so that in times of danger they had only to pull up the sluice and the water rushing in filled the room and rose about halfway up the shaft so that it looked exactly like a simple well and nobody would ever think there was a room beneath. Wasn’t that a cute idea.’ f.38 River with rocky banks, probably the Narbada.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003281012
040-003974725 - Is part of:
- WD3089, ff.1-38, WD3090-3094 : CRUMP, CHARLES WADE (1825-1857) Born Halford, Warwickshire, son of Rev. Charles Collins Crump. Madras…
WD3089 : Album of 40 drawings that appear to have been made during periods of duty in Central India and while on furlough and sick leave.… - Contains:
- WD3089(1) : Exterior of the Western Gate of Penulla, a Marhatta Fortress. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(2) : Interior of the Western Gateway of Penulla. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(3) : The Falls of Garsippa, on the Western Coast. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(4) : A View Down the Valley of the Garsippa falls. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(5a) : CWC’s Tent on the Neilgherry hills. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(5b) : Tent Study during Rain on the Neilgherries. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(6) : View Down the Top of the Cliff, Khoondas, Neilgherries. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(7) : The Edge of the Belt, Khoondas, Neilgherries. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(8) : The St Katherine Falls near Kotagherry. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(9) : [Blank Page]. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(10) : Hunting Box of the Old Saugor Rajahs. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(11) : Saugor Lake. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(12) : Remains of Old Bhuddist Temples, near Bhopal. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(13) : [Blank Page]. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(14) : The Cave Temples in the Oodeghur Hills near Bhilsa. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(15) : The Great Lingum of Bhoojpoor. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(16) : Old Temple of Gorrisapoor. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(17) : The Faqueer’s Den. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(18) : Old Boondela Stronghold of Dhamonee, near Saugor. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(19) : A Bear’s Den. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(20) : The Great Fair of the Birman Ghat on the Nerbuddah. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(21) : View up the River at Hullah. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(22) : Curious Temple and Burr Tree at Umerkuntuk. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(23) : The Old Temple in Lafagur. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
WD3089(24) : The Lair of the Wild Buffalo. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
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- 032-003281012[0002]/040-003974725
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD3089, ff.1-38, WD3090-3094
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- c 1845-1851
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Medium: watercolour; scratching out
- Publications:
- Bayly, C.A. (ed), 'The Raj, India and the British 1600-1947', National Portrait Gallery
- Exhibitions:
- The Raj: India and the British, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Crump, Charles Wade, 1825-1857
- Subjects:
- Temples
Waterfalls
crime and punishment
shikar
sports and pastimes
topographical views
travel scenes