BL3304783: James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquis of Dalhousie (1812-60), Governor-General of India, 1848-56, painted 1905 after the original portrait of 1847 A full-length standing figure, in a black frock coat with grey trousers, the body turned three-quarters to the right. The hands are crossed in front, the left holding a tall hat. To the right is a table, on which are placed some official robes, and an ink-stand, while a red folio volume rests against one of its legs. In the background is a yellow curtain and to the right the sky. / Bridgeman Images
BL3304785: Edward Pellew,1st Viscount Exmouth, Admiral (1757-1835) c.1817 A full-length figure. Pellew is shown standing on his quarter-deck, during the bombardment of Algiers, bareheaded, a telescope in his right hand and the left raised. He wears the ribbon and insignia of the Bath and several foreign decorations. Viscount Exmouth bombarded Algiers in August 1816 and rescued 3,000 Christian slaves from the Bey. Served in the War of American Independence. Commander-in-Chief East Indies 1804-09. During this period he defeated the Dutch at Batavia and Gresik and protected British ships against French privateers. / Bridgeman Images
BL3304798: Portrait of Sir John Withington Adams (1764-1837), c.1820-5. Three-quarter length standing to right, his right hand holding his hat, his left on his hip, in military uniform. He wears the badge of the Companion of the Bath pinned to his left breast. An Indian landscape visible beyond the terrace. / Bridgeman Images
BL3304810: View of Madura, Madras, 1772-73. The city is shown as viewed from a fort or encampment with European soldiers, the wall of which appears in the immediate foreground. Rising above the ramparts of the town are seen the tops of various buildings, in the centre the palace of Tirumala Nayyak and to the right the 'gopurams' of the Great Temple. / Bridgeman Images
BL3304818: Rope bridge over the Alakananda river at Srinagar, Garhwal, U.P. The old town (since washed away by floods from the bursting of the Gohna lake in 1904) occupies the centre of the picture, but is partially hidden by the rock in the foreground. It was once the capital of Garhwal and the residence of the Rajas. On the opposite bank of the Alaknanda (spanned by a rope bridge 240 feet long) is the village of Ranihat. / Bridgeman Images
BL3304825: South view of the fort at Madikeri, Coorg, 1835. In 1812 Linga Rajendra of Coorg constructed a European style brick palace measuring 200 feet square inside the fort. The British took control of Madikeri in 1834. On the south side of the palace there was a Virabhadra temple which was torn down and replaced by a church in 1855. This view was painted from the Kings' Tombs on the north ridge of the valley surrounding Madikeri. / Bridgeman Images