Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.01 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174435 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Photograph of the horse of Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered ... Show morePhotograph of the horse of Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (1521 and 1338) and captioned in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0031-0001 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25418841 BIB-ID: 2710921 Show less
Art, Ancient, Art, Ancient--Egypt--Pictorial works
Between 1815 and 1822, the French explorer Frédéric Cailliaud documented the artworks and texts he found in the major archaeological sites of Egypt... Show moreBetween 1815 and 1822, the French explorer Frédéric Cailliaud documented the artworks and texts he found in the major archaeological sites of Egypt and Sudan. Among the multitude of tomb paintings, he focused on recording practical aspects of daily life, such as this depiction of artisans refining a sculpture. Main Heritage Display General HC.GM.2016.0012.01-0001 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24924490 BIB-ID: 2668103 Show less
Murad , 1546-1595, Clothing and dress, Clothing and dress--Pictorial works--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Collection of watecolour drawings from a disbound album depicting the costumes and types of Ottoman subjects in bright vibrant colours highlighted... Show moreCollection of watecolour drawings from a disbound album depicting the costumes and types of Ottoman subjects in bright vibrant colours highlighted with gilt and silver. The collection, probably the work of a Venetian artist who travelled to Turkey during the reign of Sultan Murad III (r. 1574 – 1595), includes a portrait of the Sultan and as well as portraits of knights, soldiers, Janissaries, servants, prisoners, pilgrims, women, doctors, dervishes and other religious figures. Mahometo primo Bassa. -- Amurat Imperator di Turchi. -- Habito et Maniera dei Peichs ouero staffieri del gran sig.or. -- [J]oioglan sono li paggi del gran sig.or N°140. -- Ciaus sono li Comessari regii. (Chiauses are the royal commissioners) -- Cadislequer sono sacerdotto et supremo ministro nele Case dela Giustizia. (Qadis are religious men and high magistrates in the Houses of Justice) -- Habito turcho secondo caualcano per la pioggia. (Turkish attire when they [the Turks] ride their horses in the rain) -- Aga sono li Turchi guardiani delle donne. (Aghas are the Turkish guardians of women) -- Peicg sono li staffieri del gran sig.or N° 100. -- Gianizzero Cappo sopra le Arteglarie. -- Gianizzeri sono la guardia del gran sig.or N° 14000. -- Solachi sono quelli che Caminano A piedi davanti il gran sig.or et sono N° 400. -- Azzappi sono li soldati dele Galere. -- Agiamoglan sono li figlioli de Cristiani, sudditi del gran sig.or ogni tre Anni de cui ne a tre, ne piglia uno, et si tiene nel modo qui desegnato fin che uengano A eser Gianizzari. -- Atoglan sono li servitori dela stala. -- Un pregion con il guardiano che adimanda Alimosima. -- Agemoglan sono queli che portinoA Mangiair ali lauoratori. -- Sacha portano Aqua da beuere per la Citta. -- Un Sciavo con il guardian Arrabo. (A slave with the Arab guardian) -- Muffi il Papa di turchi. (Mufti, the Pope of the Turks) -- Uno che porta l'Anchoran di Mochomets. (One who is carrying the Koran of Muhammad) -- Deruis una Maniera di Religiosi. (Dervish, a kind of religious man) -- Gromaliero Religioso turcho Pelegrinante. -- Religioso turcho per mostrar di uiuere msolitudine fra le bestie conduce seco qualche animale domestico. -- Una altra Maniera di Religiosi. -- [...] alcuni di loro [...] perder la uista acio che hauendouisto il sepolchro di Mochometo no uedano piu cossa alcuna. -- Deruisio Religioso turcho che si fa tagli per la Vina. -- Pechliuan sono li luitatori. -- Cul Bassa sono li sciaui deli Bassa. -- Dui A Caualo sonando per il Circoncilier. -- Dui a Caualo sonando con tromboni. -- Donna turca di stato mezano in Camera. (Middle-class Turkish woman in her home attire) -- Citadin et Merchante. -- Come siedono li turchi nele lor Case. -- Medico hebreo in Constantinopoli. -- Modo si come li turchi portano li Mortti a sopelire. -- Un Giouineto che si A acirconcider. -- Uno che portino un torzio nipizato con una Cassela di fiori per il Circoncider. (One who is carrying [...] and a bunch of flowers for the circumciser) -- Quando un turcho Maritta la sua figliola, la manda al Marito nel modo qui desegniato. -- Le Donne turche uano per la Citta nel modo qui desegniato -- Dona turcha come Uano al Bagnio. -- Massara turcha. -- Donna Greca. (Greek woman) -- Donna di Caramania. (Woman from Karamania) -- Patriarca di Greci. -- Persian A Cauallo. -- Arrabo. -- Persiano. -- Arrabo A Caualo. -- Re di Morri. -- Morro di Barbaria. -- Arrmeno. -- Greco. Title and date devised by library staff. Each drawing is captioned at the bottom in Italian. 2 have handwritten notes in German at the back dated 1595. Added to it, probably from the same album, 3 other separate watercolour drawings (no captions for those drawings). Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.2016.0002 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i22905935 BIB-ID: 2443162 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel--Pictorial works
Collection of watercolor photogravures by Charles Gillot after photographs of various international nineteenth-century photographers. Images are... Show moreCollection of watercolor photogravures by Charles Gillot after photographs of various international nineteenth-century photographers. Images are related to customs and costumes of specific regions of the world. Areas depicted include Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Much on the Middle and the Far East. Topics include architectures, sceneries, peoples posing for studio pictures in traditional costumes and landscapes. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Bond grouping of booklets, each one coming with 7 to 10 titled, described and numbered plates. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.13654 2-D Graphic vol. 2 (plates CXCIII-CCCLXXXIV) Item-ID: i24878492 BIB-ID: 1007893 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel--Pictorial works
Collection of watercolor photogravures by Charles Gillot after photographs of various international nineteenth-century photographers. Images are... Show moreCollection of watercolor photogravures by Charles Gillot after photographs of various international nineteenth-century photographers. Images are related to customs and costumes of specific regions of the world. Areas depicted include Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Much on the Middle and the Far East. Topics include architectures, sceneries, peoples posing for studio pictures in traditional costumes and landscapes. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Bond grouping of booklets, each one coming with 7 to 10 titled, described and numbered plates. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.13654 2-D Graphic vol. 3 (plates CCCLXXXV-DC) Item-ID: i24878509 BIB-ID: 1007893 Show less
Collection of plates from "Monuments arabes d’Égypte, de Syrie et d’Asie-Mineure dessinés et mesurés de 1842 à 1845" (19), printed in Paris by... Show moreCollection of plates from "Monuments arabes d’Égypte, de Syrie et d’Asie-Mineure dessinés et mesurés de 1842 à 1845" (19), printed in Paris by Lemercier for the author and A. Hauser in 1846, and from "Monuments et Paysages de l’Orient" (5), printed in Paris by Lemercier in 1851. In 1842, Girault de Prangey went on a trip to study in the Middle East; his two-year tour led him to Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. He took daguerreotypes of monuments and landscapes and when he returned to France in 1845 he used some of his plates for the illustrations of the above-mentioned works. Title and date from item. Lithographs are bounded in a half green morocco album with gilt lettering on spine. Size of the sheets and of the lithographs varies. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.2013.0010 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i21990724 BIB-ID: 2355314 Show less