Watercolour portrait of a man in white clothes and white turban, with a sabre. Signed 'RGW' and captioned 'Gilgit Augt. 7 [rest cutt off], also an inscription in ?Urdu. [El.B 16/04/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Watercolour portrait of a man in white clothes and white turban, with a sabre. Signed 'RGW' and captioned 'Gilgit Augt. 7 [rest cutt off], also an inscription in ?Urdu. [El.B 16/04/2008]
Geographical reference: Pakistan
Asia > Southern Asia > Pakistan; Northern Areas Gilgit District
Person: Maker Robert Gosset Woodthorpe; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ida Wilson
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1879
Date collected: By 1929
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1929
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Watercolour Paint, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 232 mm, Length: max 345 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1929.87.2 Other numbers: 3 No. 14 on typed list of Woodthorpe pictures
Research and responses: The brother of RG Woodthorpe, J. Dalton Woodthorpe, lived in Cheltenham, and was a family friend of the Wilsons. See RDF for J. Dalton Woodthorpe's 1916 donation of artefacts which mentions Ida Wilson. It is likely therefore that they acquired the collection of drawings from him. [CM 23/05/2011]