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Mss Eur B265/1
- Record Id:
- 041-003283679
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002278078
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035588703.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur B265/1
- Title:
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Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother. Artist(s): Walter, Mary Emma (1816-1850)
- Scope & Content:
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Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife. It includes passages copied from books and periodicals, and copies of letters written to her mother.
ff.11-22 Views in France.
f.31 Malta.
Pencil.
f.37 Pyramids and sphinx, Egypt.
Pencil.
f.40 ‘A Street in Cairo, from Mrs Hill’s private hotel Decr. 1838’.
Pencil.
f.47 ‘Mazogan’.
Pencil
f.50 ‘Fort of Bassein. Jan. 29th 1839’.
Pen and ink.
f.52 Kaira church.
Pencil.
f.56 ‘Captain Walter’s Bungalow. Deesa. 1839’.
Pencil.
f.59 Two ‘hackeries’.
Sepia wash.
f.65 ‘Nun Rock. Mnt 4600/May 18th 1839’.
Pencil.
f.66 ‘Parsee Cemetery. Deesa’.
Pencil.
f.69 ‘Village of Barka - near Deesa. Novr. 4th 1839’.
Pen and ink.
f.71 ‘Deesa. March 1840’.
Pencil.
f.77 Race course, Deesa.
Water-colour.
f.81 ‘Town of Pahlampoor-Guzerat. Feby. 19th 1840’.
Pencil.
f.84 Well.
Water-colour.
f.86 Darzi. ‘Sept. 2nd 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.88 Ayah. ‘Septr. 2nd 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.91 ‘Natives of Kattewar’.
Water-colour.
f.92 Bullock ‘shigram’.
Water-colour.
f.94 Lakhtar. ‘Lucter. April 11th 1840’.
Pencil.
f.96 ‘Temple in the village of Molee. Kattewar. April 14th 1840’.
Pencil.
f.100 ‘Town of Rajkote-Kattewar 1841’.
Pencil.
f.107 Muslim tombs. ‘Soonoosra, May 18th 1841’.
Pen and ink.
f.111 ‘Shah-i-baugh-Ahmedabad, Guzerat’.
Pencil.
f.114 ‘Dr Sproule’s Bungalow - Civil Lines May 1841’.
Pencil.
f.117 ‘Poonghee. A musical instrument formed of a gourd and reeds’.
Water-colour.
f.121 ‘Diu Island and Fort-on the coast of Kattawar. Nover. 13th 1841’.
Pencil.
f.127 ‘Mungyr Tallao-near Kurrachee. Decber. 7 1841’.
Pencil.
f.133 ‘Bukkur fort, and the town of Roree from the Agency Bungalow. Sukkur. Jany. 3rd 1842’.
Pencil.
f.135 ‘View from the Agency Bungalow looking down the Indus. Sukkur. Jany. 6th 1842’.
Pencil.
f.137 ‘View of Bukkur, Roree and part of Sukkur cantonments - from Colonel Marshall’s Bungalow. Jany. 7th 1842’.
Pencil.
f.139 ‘Shirkapore Camp, from the roof of Captn. Walter’s bungalow. Septr. 16th 1842’.
Pencil.
f.143 ‘Captain Walter’s Bungalow at Shirkapore, Upper Scinde 1842’.
Pencil.
f.156 ‘Captn. Walter’s Bungalow at Sukkur. April 1st 1843’.
Pencil.
f.160 ‘Minaret, Mosque. Syud’s Tomb at Sukkur. 1843’.
Water-colour.
f.176 ‘Fort Minora, and rocks at entrance of Kurrachee harbour. Lower Scinde. May 7th 1843’.
Pencil.
f.180 ‘Aden-Steamer Point. June 6th 1843’.
Pencil.
f.182 ‘Hotel and Coal depôt-Aden. June 6th 1843’.
Pencil.
f.196 ‘Gibraltar’.
Pencil.
f.198 ‘Algiers. June 29th 1843’.
Pencil.
f.216 ‘Fort and Tank-Sholapore. Febry. 14 1848’.
Pencil.
f.219 ‘Major Walter’s Bungalow-Sholapore’. 1848.
Pencil.
f.225 ‘Great Gun. Beejapoor. November 1849’.
Pen and ink.
f.232 Sholapur.
Pencil.
f.240 Cantonment Church, Ahmadnagar.
Pen and ink.
f.245 Camp with fort.
Pencil.
f.247 ‘Crushing mill at Arvee’.
Pencil.
f.249 ‘Sonegeer. Feby. 21st’.
Pencil.
f.251 ‘Sindhwar. Feby. 26th 1850’.
Pencil.
f.260 ‘Moosslemanees of Surat-in outdoor costume. Aug. 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.265 ‘Hindostan woman in outdoor costume. Augst. 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.266 ‘Rhuth’.
Water-colour.
f.272 ‘Sookram, a Moonshee’.
Water-colour.
f.273 ‘Dirzee, a native of Bhuj’.
Water-colour.
f.278 ‘‘Fiscus Indicus’. Burr or Banian Tree 1839’.
Pencil.
f.282 ‘Stoke Hill-Bishopstone. Hampshire 1846’.
Pencil.
f.284 ‘Tomb of Muhammad’, by an Indian artist.
Water-colour.
f.291 ‘Thermantidote’.
Water-colour.
f.293 ‘Atchee. Mooslemen of Surat. Deesa 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.295 Pottery vessels.
Water-colour.
f.296 ‘Scindh carts. Shirkapore. March 1842’.
Water-colour.
f.298 ‘Mahomed Bhakur, a native of Kelat. Decr. 1841’.
Water-colour.
f.299 ‘Mahrattas’.
Water-colour.
f.301 ‘Bolan Pass’.
Water-colour.
f.302 Mountain pass.
Water-colour.
f.305 ‘Artillery barracks, & part of Sukkur. Decber. 13th 1842’.
Pencil.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002278078
040-003283677
041-003283679 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur B265 : Mary Emma Walter papers.
Mss Eur B265/1-2 : WALTER, MARY EMMA née Coulthard (1816-1850). Wife of Major Edward Walter, 3rd Bombay Cavalry 1821-51.
Mss Eur B265/1 : Illustrated journal from 1838 to 1850 kept by Mary Emma Walter describing the voyage out to India and life as an army wife.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002278078[0001]/040-003283677[0001]/041-003283679
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur B265
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1838
- End Date:
- 1850
- Date Range:
- 1838-1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; pen-and-ink; watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 337-339
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Walter, M. Emma, fl 1838-1850
- Subjects:
- Architecture
Castes and Tribes
Houses
Women
ethnic and religious groups
topographical views
town views
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women artists