- CA RBD Piranesi-002
- Item
- 1800-1809
Part of Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
Print of an etching with stone arches, buildings in the background, and several figures torturing a person, possibly a sculpture.
Part of Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
Print of an etching with stone arches, buildings in the background, and several figures torturing a person, possibly a sculpture.
Plate I, Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
Part of Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
Print of an etching with masonry, walkways, and staircases, with a title inscribed on a wall.
A variety of the Indian Certhia
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a red and blue bird poised on a branch, with identification and description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety of the Indian Certhia; with different Trees and Shrubs on Salsette. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
A variety in the Certhia Tribe
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a brown bird poised on a branch, with identification and description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety in the Certhia Tribe; with wild Trees and Flowering Plants in the Concan. Figure has been cut out and pasted onto sheet, background details in pencil drawn in.
Black bird on yellow flowering branch
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a small bird (possibly a sunbird) poised on a branch with red, five-petalled flowers next to a butterfly in flight. Figures have been cut out and pasted on leaf.
Bird, butterfly, and flowering branch
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a small bird (possibly a sunbird) poised on a branch with red, five-petalled flowers next to a butterfly in flight. Figures have been cut out and pasted on leaf.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustration of scorpion pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil, with branch coloured in. Later caption in Casey Woods's hand reads: "The drawing in this portfolio are probably those made to illustrate Forbes' 'Oriental Memoirs'."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustration of chameleon pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustrations of lizard and small bird pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustration of crocodile pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil.