EditorialPortrait of Percy Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Bombay Political Service, 1909. He wears the I.P.S. uniform with the C.S.I. insignia, and stands before a draped curtain with an Indian architectuaral background beyond. Vesey-Fitzgerald joined the Bombay Ci...
EditorialCaptain William Joseph Eastwick (1808-89)., Bombay Army 1827-41, and Director of the East India Company 1849-58. A half-length figure, with body turned towards the right. The face is seen almost in full. Eastwick wears a red-lined black cape with a fur...
EditorialGoanese Christians [at Bombay]. Two couples, posed against a largely blank background. The men wear European clothes. William Johnson, 'The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay. A series of Photographs, with letter-press descript...
EditorialHalf-length portrait of Claudius James Rich, c.1803. A brilliant linguist, he studied a numberof Oriental languages at an early age, and applied to the East India Company for a military cadetship. The directors decided his abilities would be better ser...
EditorialFull-length standing portrait of Manickjee Antarya, the celebrated Parsee traveller, Bombay. A studio portrait, posed against a painted backdrop of a rustic scene. The traveller holds an axe, a leather bag and a water bottle(?). Archaeological Survey o...
Editorial'Bombay School of Art'. Picture of a building. 1931 - 1933. Oil on board, 57 by 38cm. One of 3 oil paintings presented to Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay 1928-33, along with 12 watercolours by students and staff of the Bombay School of Art. All...
EditorialPortrait of the Rev. Randall Ward, Bombay Ecclesiastical establishment, signed by the artist and dated Poona 1834. . 1834. Oil painting. Source: Foster 921.
EditorialKhojas [Bombay]. A group of two men, a youth and a child, posed against a photomontaged background of a view of Bombay. William Johnson, 'The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay. A series of Photographs, with letter-press descri...
EditorialLt H.C.B. [Henry Charles Baskerville] Tanner at Karachi at time of his marriage (1859), wearing the uniform of the Royal Horse Artillery with a medal of the Persian Gulf Campaign when he was serving in the Bombay Field Artillery . c. 1859. Source: Phot...
EditorialHead from life’. A turbanned half-length figure. One of 3 oil paintings presented to Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay 1928-33, along with 12 watercolours by students and staff of the Bombay School of Art. All have typed labels with title and a...
EditorialA sketch of Captain Powell I.N. playing whist. Sketch book with laid down drawings of views and portraits made between 1843 and 1854 in Bombay and Sind, and during furlough in Europe. Also three later drawings made in Kathiawar and Savantvadi. 1843 - 1...
EditorialNo. 1909. Naik Darwan Sing Negi, V.C; Ist battalion, 39th Royal Garhwal Rifles. Village Kafaditir Pauri, Dist. Garhwal. Deed of valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, ...
EditorialNo. 2008 Lance Dafadar Gobind Singh, V.C; 28th Light cavalry. Village Damoe, Dist. Jodhpur. Deed of Valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, together with a list of serv...
EditorialSir James Rivett-Carnac, Bt. (1785-1846). A standing figure, with face seen in full, but body turned half to the left. The left hand hangs by the side; the right rests on a table, on which is a plumed hat. The uniform is blue, trimmed with silver, and ...
EditorialSir John Malcolm. Portrait of Sir John Malcolm, soldier and administrator, Governor of Bombay 1827. Lithograph by R.J. Lane after George Hayter. Published in 1832. Lithograph. British school. . Source: P616,.
EditorialMrs Louisa Brown holding the journal of her son Major Lewis Brown (5th Bombay N.I.). Her son won fame as defender of the fort at Kahan in Baluchistan in 1840. She is wearing a black satin dress, grey and black stole and white bonnet and is seated at a ...
EditorialIllustration of Bombay architecture. A tower or lighthouse on the coast. Two people, a man and a woman. . An elevated view of the Islands of Bombay and Salsette, with the surrounding country. London. Source: P394. Language: English.
EditorialNATIVE WOMEN (BOMBAY PRESIDENCY), CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY. The Bombay Presidency was a province of British India. It was first established at Surat in the 17th century as a trading post for the English East India Company, but it later grew to encompas...
EditorialThree Ladies in a Palace Interior: Page from a Dispersed Laur Chanda (Romance of Laurak and Chanda), Sultanate period, 1520?30, Northern India (Mandu?), Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Image: 7 1/8 x 5 in. (18.1 x 12.7 cm), Paintings, The ma...
EditorialTHE INDIAN SECTION OF THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, 1886: SPECIMENS OF NATIVE ART WORKMANSHIP: Water Vessel made in Lucknow, Pillars belonging to the Marble Palace in the Fort of Agra, Kashmir Silver gilt Claret Jug, Silver Essence holder, Four-w...
EditorialNATIVE WOMEN (BOMBAY PRESIDENCY), CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY. The Bombay Presidency was a province of British India. It was first established at Surat in the 17th century as a trading post for the English East India Company, but it later grew to encompas...
EditorialPRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO SIR ALBERT D. SASSOON, K.S.I.: ORGAN PRESENTED BY SIR A.D. SASSOON TO THE TOWN HALL, BOMBAY, INDIA, 1873 engraving.
EditorialROUND THE WORLD YACHTING IN THE "CEYLON," BOMBAY: 1. A Native Boat; 2 & 4. Bombay Types; 3. Reefing a Lateen Sail; 5. A Fakeer in a Holy Brahmin Village; 6. A Treadwheel for Drawing Water; 7. Cave Temples at Elephanta; 8. A Parsee Tower of Silence.