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Madras Album 78 items

The paintings of birds, fish, and flowers by Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds held in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection at McGill Library, and the landscapes and portraits painted by Mary Symonds in the Madras Album held at the South Asia Museum, are brought together to form the digital Gwillim Archives. The titles below the images are the original titles given by the artists.

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2 figures on a narrow earth path with a woman in blue carrying a basket on her head walking towards them; in the middleground dense trees and 3 straw huts; mountains in the background.

1. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

In the right middleground 2 figures stand in a low open-front building with white walls and a brown roof. A distant view of water and mountains fills the background to the left, with shrubs and an earth road in the foreground.

2. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

A row of large trees stands before a white structure with multiple dark archways on the right. In the distance to the left are 2 oxen and a cart, with a mountain in the background.

3. Banyan Trees | Banyans

By a tall thin palm tree, a man holding a bundle on his head, a woman and child, and another man bending down; beyond them, a wide river with islets of palm trees; mountains in the background.

4. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

A dark ship on the water in front of an island with low dark mountains.

5. Ascension Island | île de l’Ascension

A curving river with dense forest on the left bank and a sandy shore on the right with the remains of a fallen tree in the right foreground; in the centre a small figure stands on the sand.

6. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

2 white oxen graze beneath trees; beyond them to the right 2 square grey buildings with pointed domes and minarets; in the background dense vegetation and mountains; in the right foreground a grassy hill.

7. Landscape with mosque | Paysage et mosquée

A woman with red cloth draped over her left shoulder sits watching a child in white sleeping in a large 4-poster bed with a wooden railing at the back, and white curtains tied with blue ribbons; vertical chests covered in white cloth with baskets on top stand on either side.

8. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

A cluster of white buildings and trees at the foot of high cliffs; the spires of a mosque peak out above the mountain on the right; a mosque silhouetted on top of the mountain in the right background.

9. St Helena - James’ Town | Sainte-Hélène - Jamestown

An earth road with a figure in white, an oxcart, and a man under a large tree to the left; 2 figures and an infant to the right; beyond them a man, and a woman carrying a pot on her head, before a white building with decorative pointed arches and 2 minarets; trees in the background.

10. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

A group of small figures on the grass: 2 women sitting, 2 children, and a man with a tall stick; to the left between 2 large trees a person carries a stick and raises 1 arm; 3 tall trees grow on the right; in the background a vast landscape with gopurams and mountains in the distance.

11. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

3 men (Brahmins) with their hair tied back, wearing yellow and red cloth draped across their chest and back, and short trousers, stand facing each other near a woman and child by rocks to the left; a tower or gopuram behind trees in the background.

12. Brahams | Brahmanes

4 tall thin palm trees grow before ornate white buildings with minarets and decorative arches; a man stands and a woman sits by the tree on the right, and another man stands behind them in the centre by some shrubs; mountains in the background.

13. Palms Near Sacred Buildings | Palmiers près d’édifices sacrés

Beyond a wooden fence, 3 small figures, 2 trees, and a cart before a low white building with an archway, 2 open doorways on either side, and a flat roof with 4 chimneys; 2 oxen to the right of the building; dense palm trees in the background.

14. Domestic Offices Madras | Bureaux domestiques à Madras

A group of 5 men standing and sitting in various positions, 3 hold poles; all wear white and red head coverings, white long sleeve tops, and white shorts with red waist sashes; in the bottom right corner 2 miniature oxen and the end of a palanquin.

15. Palanquin Boys Resting | Porteurs de palanquin au repos

By a small stream a man feeds 2 oxen, a woman holds an infant on her lap and another woman leans over them, a man stands holding a tall stick, and a boy leans against the large wheel of a cart piled with hay; a rocky outcrop behind them; in the right background, a field with a herd of animals and a small figure.

16. [Untitled] | [Sans titre]

Beyond a white balustrade with large rounded balusters a figure walks on an earth path leading to the blue doorway of a low building concealed by trees and shrubs.

17. From St Thome | De Santhome

A man with a thin black moustache, white angled head covering, long-sleeved knee-length white top tied closed at the chest, loose white trousers, and carrying a white cloth draped over his left arm, stands barefoot in a rocky landscape.

18. A Dabach | Dubash

A view of the Cape of Good Hope from the water, with ships moored in the bay before a cluster of white buildings, with tall mountains behind them to the left, and a single peak to the right.

19. The Cape of Good Hope | Cap de Bonne-Espérance

A bearded male Brahmin in white garments, with a bare chest, and a red and white head covering sits holding a long rectangular object with strings hanging down.

20. A Learned Brahman | Érudit brahmane

To the right of a grey stone monument 2 women in white carry pots on their heads; in the centre of the scene another figure in white; to the right a white ox before beige stone walls; in the background, trees and shrubs, with mountains in the distance.

21. Sketch on the Mrad Fort | Esquisse du fort Mrad

A square white building with a tower behind a low stone wall; across from it, a low white building with a brown roof, surrounded by brick walls; large mountains in the background.

22. Entrance to a Hindoo Village | Entrée d’un village hindou

A man with a red angled head covering, white long sleeve top hanging below a red waist sash, and short red trousers, stands holding a long slender white mace behind him; in the background a landscape of grass, trees, and mountains, and a white building to the left.

23. A Chobdar | Chobdar

A woman in white carrying a white pot in her left hand and 2 more on her head; a girl with white cloth wrapped around her chest on her left, and a naked boy facing the side holding a curved object hanging from a string on her right; in the background shrubs and palm trees.

24. Natives | Indigènes

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