Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, Indian Guard Room, undated
- Title:
- Indian Guard Room
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/2 × 3 inches (6.4 × 7.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "For [...] us and [...] us with | Courage Love and Joy [...]"; in pen and brown ink, upper left: "No. 35"; in graphite, lower left: "Punch Tent in [...]; 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 request in the Study Room [Request]
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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)
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)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17247
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