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Gwillim Collection With digital objects
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Mesoprion johnii

Painting showing a side view of fish in dark teal and tan; scales rendered through cross-hatching. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Mesoprion johnii" and "Musri."

Symonds, Mary

Platycephalus insidiator

Painting of a grey-and-blue fish, in between a side and dorsal view; blue wash underneath. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Platycephalus insidiator" and "Urpāḳi."

Symonds, Mary

Hemiramphus dussumierii

Painting showing a side view of blue fish with long beak. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Hemiramphus dussumierii."

Symonds, Mary

Chrysophrys hasta

Painting showing a side view of red fish with light blue and grey undertones. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Chrysophrys hasta" and "Kārkǎṭi" (pencil).

Symonds, Mary

Holocanthus xanthurus

Painting shows a side view of angelfish with dark grey and black fins, yellow-orange tail, and light-coloured side. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Holocanthus xanthurus" and "Kinārbi."

Symonds, Mary

Cirrhina

Painting showing side view of fish in grey, teal, and violet, suggesting iridescence. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Cirrhina."

Symonds, Mary

Coryphaena equiselis

Painting showing a side view of fish with lavender, dark blue, grey, pale yellow, blue-green, and light rose washes of paint, suggesting iridescence. Inscription beneath the painting reads, "Dolphin," with, "Coryphaena equiselis" beneath that in pencil on the mat.

Symonds, Mary

VI Flowers

Small grey-ish paper mounted in centre of a larger page, with "VI Flowers" in script at centre.

Drawings by Lady Gwillim wife of Chief Justice of Madras in 1801-1805

Small square paper pasted to larger page with inscription that reads, "Watercolour Paintings of the Birds of India by Lady Elizabeth Gwillim Madras, 1801–1808 – ? (Lady G. died 1807) (Life-size – drawings) In a portfolio with a few of her paintings of flowers. See, also, larger portfolio, for larger paintings of birds." Includes some other inscriptions on the page.

Glaucium luteum

Very lightly sketched and painted flower, some leaves painted light grey or green, others just outlined in pencil. Stem surrounded with curling, loose leaves. Inscription at the bottom centre of the page reads, "Glaucium luteum." Another at the lower left of the drawing reads, "Chelidonium Glaucium Yellow-horned poppy."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

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