- Title:
- Indian Guard Room
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (6.4 × 7.3 cm), Mount: 6 5/8 × 4 inches (16.8 × 10.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "For Arrack inspires us and Fires us with | Courage Love and Joy &cc"; in brown ink, upper left: "No. 35"; in graphite, lower left: "Punch Tent in Camp; inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Sepoy Indian Guard-Room"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22280
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- guard | Indian | military art | military, the | soldiers
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17247
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
John McAleer, Picturing India People, Places, and the World of the East India Company, The British Library, London, p. 48, fig. 2.12, N8214.5.I5 M43 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 33, no. 100, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]