Object

Accession No

2011.110

Description

painting; watercolour; drawing - Watercolour and pencil painting on paper, mounted on board. Image shows village by river with canoes. Inscription: 'Village of Hivondrona. S. Pasfield Oliver Lieut. R.A. A.D.C.". "Hivondrona RIver July 23rd 1862'. Annotated '2' and '417/0'.

Place

Africa; East Africa; Madagascar; Hivondrona River; Hivondrona village

Period

Source

Oliver, Samuel Pasfield (Captain) [artist and original donor]; Haddon Library (transfer)

Department

Anth

Reference Numbers

2011.110; 2; 417/0

Cultural Affliation

Material

Paint; Paper

Local Term

Measurements

Events

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) Lieutenant Samuel Pasfield Oliver, (Captain: 1871), Royal Artillery, visited Madagascar during 1861-2, and witnessed King Radama IIâ€™s coronation at Antananarivo (23 Sept 1861), and returned later in 1863 on HMS Rapid following the Kingâ€™s presumed assassination, (12 May 1863).

The Annual Report for 1893 notes that Captain S. Pasfield Oliver, late R.A., gave a collection of "fifty-nine sketches and finished drawings in pencil, in;, and water colours, of prehistoric stone monuments, tumuli, and burial places, sketched by the donor in England, the Channel Islands, Brittany, Etruria, Sardinia, Greece, the Troad, Madagasgar, Japan and" as well as a number of books to the library". It is likely that the Madagascan material here accessioned as 2011.96-232 is part of this donation. Transferred from the Haddon library in a card folio in 2010.

Event Date 5/10/2011
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Watercolour and pencil painting on paper, mounted on board. Image shows village by river with canoes. Inscription: 'Village of Hivondrona. S. Pasfield Oliver Lieut. R.A. A.D.C.". "Hivondrona RIver July 23rd 1862'. Annotated '2' and '417/0'.
Event Date 5/10/2011
Author: maa

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