Rawalpindi

Date: [Between 1880s and 1900s]

By: Lekegian, Gabriel, active 1887-1908

Reference: PA1-f-026

Description: Album of photographs, and sketches, owned by Harold Gore Browne, son of Sir Thomas Robert Gore Brown (Governor of New Zealand 1855-1861). Photographs include family members, including Muriel (Lady Muriel Browne, nee Murray), and friends (names include Miss Denman, Mrs Riddle, Miss Synge, Miss Wells, Captain and Mrs Davidson, Mrs Cruickshank, Major and Mrs Lucas and Miss Money). Scenes in England include various large houses in England, including Newton Manor, Gosforth. There are several photographs of the exterior and interior of a house in Cairo (inscription beneath one reads `The garden. `Ockham', Cairo'. A number of scenes associated with the 60th King's Royal Rifles in Pakistan, including various camps at Gulistan, Gharial, and Mastan relating to a group of fortified posts occupied by the British Army. Associated with the photographs of Pakistan is a series of pencil sketches. Several views of a crowd of people at a race-track were taken by Gabriel Lekegian (G Lekegian & Co) who had a photographic studio in Cairo. Items inserted in pocket at the front of the album include a number of early photographs of Fuentarrabia in Spain, handwritten instructions for killing snails, and an ink sketch of `Capt Sandeville[?]'. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 43 x 32 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Previously owned by Harold Gore-Browne.

Date: 1916

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-288-q-008

Description: Page shows two ink sketches. At left a nurse examines the throat of a sick soldier by putting a spatula or spoon into his mouth, and asking him to relax his throat. At the right, the "scene in the Garden of Eden" shows a desert with a searing sun, and a minute patch of shade, indicated by an arrow, under a palm tree. Other Titles - Rawalpindi; October Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on page, 140 x 230 mm.

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

Reference: E-022-q-086

Description: Lefthand side, portrait of Nadir Ali in the uniform of the 18th Bengal Lancers at Rawal Pindi. Righthand side, view of Kina Balu framed on two sides by species of Nepenthes (pitcher plants) Lefthand side was published as a chromolithograph chapter-heading in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, page 56. Caption added later in red ink `Rawal Pindi. Poor Nadir - this is too awful Bengal Cavalry'. Righthand drawing was published (with addition of a butterfly) as a wood-engraving on page 169, and entitled Pitcher-plants and Kina Balu. Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last voyage' Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title in red ink and pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, on sheet 210 x 305 mm