Places visited by T.C.M. Drawings and watercolours, 1872-1879.

The drawings follow the author's route via Malta, Gibraltar, through the Suez canal to Aden, India (Tamil Nadu, Neilgherry Hills, Karnataka, Calicut, Cannanore, Bangalore) and Burma (Rangoon); return to England (Medstead House and Hale Park, both in Hampshire) and Ireland (Birr, King's County, subsequently County Offaly)

Subjects include: ports, fishing boats, street scenes, army officer's bungalow, life on board ship, army camps, temples; also illustrations of humorous fictitious character Puffy Doddles (the hero of "Stable secrets: or, Puffy Doddles, his sayings and sympathies" by John Mills, London 1863) on horse-back going hunting

[1872-1879]

1 album (40 leaves, 82 drawings and paintings) : pen and ink and watercolour ; mounts 57 x 41 cm

TCM

Fol. 4r [Wintry scene with a church and people in England]

Fol. 5r top: "Puffy Doddles is called in good time" Kinsale Barracks 1870 [Puffy Doddles in bed is woken up by man servant]

Fol. 5r bottom: "Puffy" arrives at the meet [Puffy meets the hunting party on horseback]

Fol. 6r top: "Puffy" thinks he had better steady the mare for the big bank before him [Puffy galloping on horse, man behind him has fallen off horse]

Fol. 6r bottom: [Puffy fallen off horse]

Fol. 7r top: Puffy Doddles eats his lunch peacefully (N.B. Hounds running like mad) [Puffy eats his lunch and dries his sweaty brow with a handkerchief]

Fol. 7r bottom: "Here's the little horse yar honor"? [Puffy stands next to his horse, straightening his top hat]

Fol. 8r: "Puffy returns to Barracks" [Puffy on horse trotting back into town]

Fol. 9r top: [Picturesque scene in Malta, boats with white sails]

Fol. 9r bottom: 1872 View from my room Malta [View of Malta from rooftops, late afternoon]

Fol. 10r top: Malta [Picturesque view of Malta harbour]

Fol. 10r bottom: Malta [A boat has come ashore, men and women standing near by]

Fol. 11r top: Malta [Malta, a harbour, men in a green and red boat]

Fol. 11r bottom: Malta "Ease and elegance" 1872 [A man wearing white, reading, and smoking a pipe]

Fol. 12r top: Gozo fruit boat [Gozo: a boat on blue water]

Fol. 12r bottom: [M]altese calesse [A black carriage on a street with white buildings]

Fol. 13r top: Malta [A white Maltese castle]

Fol. 13r bottom: Malta Oct 20th 1872 [Maltese people: three men and a woman, white background]

Fol. 14r top: Gozo fruit boat [Gozo: a fruit boat on choppy water]

Fol. 14r bottom: Malta [Malta: fishermen on shore]

Fol. 15r top: Entrance to harbour Malta [Picturesque view of Malta the harbour]

Fol. 15r bottom: Malta [Passengers on a boat, man in blue rowing]

Fol. 16r top: P&O SS "Mooltan" Oct.r 1872 [On the deck of a boat, sailors in white]

Fol. 16r bottom: The clubhouse, Aden, 1872 [Night time at a club house, men holding yellow fans]

Fol. 17r top: Suez Canal [A small boat sailing down the canal, towards the painter]

Fol. 17r bottom: Suez Canal [The canal with two small boats]

Fol. 18r top: The Neilgherries April 1874 [Green mountains, a small house]

Fol. 18r middle: Livesay [White men in river holding guns, black men in river carrying loads]

Fol. 18r bottom: [Black men carrying loads following a white men holding a gun entering white tent]

Fol. 19r top: Entrance gate to "Skirmishers rest" (on the left) Cannanore [Late afternoon view of a lake and mountains ?]

Fol. 19r bottom: Cannanore.Dec. 1875 [View of a beach, haystacks, moutains in the distance]

Fol. 20r top: Cannanore. Dec.15. 75 [View of boats at a harbour, palm trees]

Fol. 20r bottom: Cannanore. Dec. 1875 [Three boats in the sea]

Fol. 21r top: Cannanore Dec '75 [Boats with white sails, beach with palm trees]

Fol. 21r middle: [One palm tree by the sea]

Fol. 21r bottom: Cannanore Dec 75 [Boats near the beach where there are palm trees]

Fol. 22r top: "The skirmishers rest" [A room with guns, a shisha]

Fol. 22r bottom: "My bungalow" Dec 1875 [Green painted room, man lounged on chair reading and smoking]

Fol. 23r top: Mount Delhi north of Cannanore [View of beach and sea, mountains in the distance]

Fol. 23r bottom: "Tellicherry" south of Cannanore [View of boats sailing away from the beach. Mountains]

Fol. 24r top: Their's hou[s]e in Cannanore Dec.r 21st 1875 [Bungalow surrounded by palm trees]

Fol. 24r bottom: "The Ghaut Mountains" from Hoolicut SE of Cannanore [Green mountains]

Fol. 25r top: The Neilgherry hills [Green sloping mountains]

Fol. 25r bottom: Bellary [White building, big hill with buildings on top]

Fol. 26r top: Gibralter [Boat on water near Gibraltar]

Fol. 26r bottom: Calicut [Water pump beside shallow waters. Palm trees]

Fol. 27r top: Tower of silence, Parsee burial grounds [Grey circular building, birds sitting on it]

Fol. 27r bottom: On the march to Bangalore [An encampment of white tents, in the distance mountains]

Fol. 28r top: En route for Bangalore [Elephant with man with red turban beside the white tents]

Fol. 28r bottom: Coorg camp on the road to Bangalore [White tents on a hillside, lots of trees]

Fol. 29r top: Toda huts Neilgherries [Wooden huts]

Fol. 29r bottom: The Colonel's bungalow Cannanore [Sketch of bungalow]

Fol. 30r top: SS. Chaldoea Suez Canal 1876 [Man on deck of a boat, sitting reading]

Fol. 30r middle: The barracks. Birr. Kings Co. [Barracks]

Fol. 30r bottom: "My moor." Birr. [A man by the sea with gun, watching birds flying]

Fol. 31r top: Medstead House [Large house with lots of green vegetation around it, UK]

Fol. 31r bottom: [Medstead house with a tennis net in the garden]

Fol. 32r top: View from Medstead House [Late afternoon overlooking English countryside]

Fol. 32r bottom: View from the garden [View from a hillside overlooking English countryside]

Fol. 33r top: Hale Park [A white grand house with a badminton net]

Fol. 33 bottom: [Hale Park: a white grand house, badminton net]

Fol. 34r top: Pondicherry [sketch of men]

Fol. 34r bottom: Cuddalore. Cuddalore travellers' bungalow [Bungalow in woodland]

Fol. 35r top: Tanjore [Indian Temple]

Fol. 35r bottom: Anakarai chutrum [White tent between two trees: chattram at Anakarai]

Fol. 36r top left: Chetambram looking up the main street [Chidambaram: the temple palm trees]

Fol. 36r top right: On the road between Anakarai Chutrum and [words indistinct] [Building with statue of a head outside near chattram at Anakarai]

Fol. 36r bottom left: SS. Mecca between Madras and Burmah March 23 [On board a ship man in white green cap]

Fol. 36r bottom right: Chetambram [Chidambaram: the temple, steps leading down to water]

Fol. 37r top left: The yah [?] on board S.S. Mecca going to Rangoon [Man in white reading a book "La femme de glace"]

Fol. 37r top right: SS. Mecca [Passengers on deck looking out to sea]

Fol. 37r bottom left: Rangoon from where SS. Mecca anchored March 14th [Rangoon harbour]

Fol. 37r bottom right: In the Irrawaddis on board "yan keen tonu" [?] between Rangoon & Thyetmyo [Sailors on boat in white]

Fol. 38r top left: 43rd Camp Rangoon [Woodland, camp]

Fol. 38r top right: Government House Rangoon [Houses with red roofs surrounded by trees]

Fol. 38r bottom left: Thayetmyo barracks [Man lounging on chair reading and smoking in Thyetmyo barracks]

Fol. 38r bottom right: Inside the walls of pagoda Rangoon [Woman washing under a green umbrella]

Fol. 39r top left: Irrawaddy [Boats on the canal thatched houses]

Fol. 39r top right: Landing place at Thayetmyo [Cargo boat on canal in Thyetmyo]

Fol. 39r bottom left: [Burmese temple]

Fol. 39r bottom right: Thyetmyo Burmah [wooden carts on a field in Thyetmyo]

Fol. 40r: Rangoon. 79. [Village of huts palm trees, Rangoon]

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