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Call Number:
Folio A 2023 69
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Title(s):
Hindoos, the original Inhabitants of Hindostan; with a Pagoda, and surrounding Landscape, characteristic of the Country. J. Forbes 1775
Date:
text added between 1794 and 1800
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
Part of Collection:
volume 7, page 17
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Scope and Content:
The image has been removed from the page. Top of page: "They walk'd with beasts joint tenants of the shade!" Bottom of page: a quotation from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man," beginning, "the same their tale, and the same their bed."
Physical Description:
1 page
Genre:
Botanical illustrations, Ornithological illustrations, Travel sketches, Maps, Watercolors (paintings), Drawings (visual works), Engravings (prints), and Portraits
Subject Terms:
Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Descriptive letters and drawings
Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Oriental memoirs
Associated Places:
England
Italy
Scotland
Wales
Associated People/Groups:
East India Company
Forbes, James, 1749-1819
Finding Aid Title:
James Forbes archive
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11734.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3199691
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3199691?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1