Subsérie RAS COLL5/7/1 - Artworks General Engagement

1 archival folder + one electronic file

Information about, and evidence of engagement with the artwork collections of the Society. These are:

• Correspondence concerning the possible sale of, and notes about, the Qajar painting of two girls (RAS Cat.01.002) by an unknown artist. This sale did not go ahead. Typed and handwritten, 18 pieces, dated 14 May 1976 - 21 February 1978.
• 'Sotheby's Inventory and Valuation of the Oil Paintings, Busts and Plaques, Drawings, Works by Oriental Artists, Miscellaneous Engravings, Aquatints and Lithographs, Prints, Manuscripts and Indian Miniatures at 60 Queen's Gardens, London, W2 3AF and the Victoria and Albert Museum, to property of Royal Asiatic Society, taken for the purpose of Insurance at Mid-Sale Estimate, June 1992' - valuation report and allied correspondence between James Stourton, Director, Sotheby's and the Royal Asiatic Society, dated 11-29 June 1992.
• Reviews for the 'Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Busts in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society' by Raymond Head, published by the Society in 1991. Copies of reviews from Ars Asiatiques XLVII 1992, Oriental Art, Winter 1993/3, and History Today February 1992.
• 'Equestrian portrait of Dara Shikoh' (RAS Cat.053.001) - postcard from a photograph by Kevin Lovelock, British Museum, 1998.
• Descriptions of the Chinese popular prints donated by Brian Houghton Hodgson and John Robert Morrison, description by Yin Hwang, dated 2000.
• 'Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Phipps Baker, 1786-1850' by Stuart Wilkinson, Society of Dyers and Colourists - article about Phipps Baker who donated a collection of artworks of Java. The article is undated.
• Correspondence between Dr Patrick Tuck, University of Liverpool and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the use of the image of the Chinese Court of Justice (RAS Cat.01.001) as the image for the conference menu card at the 'British Ships in China Seas Conference' held 17-20 September 2002. Correspondence is dated 31 May 2002.
• 'Ethiopian Paintings at the Royal Asiatic Society' by Alison Ohta - an article within The Anglo-Ethiopian Society News File, Summer 2008.
• 'Ethiopian Paintings held by the Royal Asiatic Society' by Geoffrey Ben-Nathan - an article within The Anglo-Ethiopian Society News File, Summer 2009, in relation to a lecture delivered by Heidi Cutts (British Museum) and Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute) on 24 March 2009. Note that in the same booklet there is another article by Chris Grant on the 2009 AGM lecture delivered by Louise Carver on population and sustainability in Ethiopia.
• Article relating to Dora Gordine and her connection with the Society. These are: 'Dora Gordine and the Royal Asiatic Society', 'Dora Gordine and Freya Stark', both by Dr Jonathan Black, Senior Research Fellow, Dorich House Museum, dated February 2008; and a copy of ‘Alive and significant: Aspects of Indian Art, Stella Kramrisch and Dora Gordine in South Kensington c. 1940' by Sarah Victoria Turner, published in ‘Wasafiri’, 2011. This latter article is an electronic article first created in 2011 and made into an archival document in 2025.
• 'Age of discovery' by Fran Gillespie - article concerning the exhibition 'India: East/West' of paintings and drawings from the Society's Collections held at the Virginal Commonwealth University, Qatar, March 2010. The article is from the Gulf Times, 25 March 2010.
• 'The Jones collection of botanical drawings at the Royal Asiatic Society' - script of a talk given by Kathy Lazenbatt, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, at the Botany in British India study day, British Library, 7 December 2012.
• 'Representations of Nepal in the nineteenth century: the watercolour paintings of Dr. Henry Ambrose Oldfield', a dissertation submitted for the University of Sussex MA in Art History, 2 September 2013 in which the Hodgson Collection of Nepal paintings were used in the candidate's research.
• 'Conservation of a Shi'ite Pilgrimage Scroll from the Royal Asiatic Society' by Mathilde Renauld in the brochure for the MA Conservation 2018, Camberwell College of the Arts, London.
• 'A Global Society', an article in Asian Affairs, July 2017. concerning the new acquisition of a portrait of recent presidents and the director of the Society.