Caroline Simpson Collection

[British army officer using a telescope] Deesa, 4th April 1841 / Thomas Wingate

Wingate, Thomas, 1807-1869.

1841

1 watercolour on paper: col ; 24.2 x 19 cm.

Dated on upper edge of image: Deesa. 4th April 1841. Initialled TW in lower right corner of image and captioned on album page below image: An outstation in the Bombay Presidency. Speech bubble addition to the image in another hand: I never saw such a face in my life, Begad I'd marry her in a minute & go home. Pon my word she's a perfect beauty! I wonder who the devil it is! By Jingo fancy going home & seeing lots of girls like that!

telescopes
chairs
army officers

Wingate album

This small watercolour sketch is pasted in on page 5 of a leather-bound folio album containing 62 sketches and watercolours and 33 early photographs, many signed by or attributable to Thomas Wingate (1807-69), former British army officer and second husband of Eleanor Terry nee Rouse (1813-1898).
The subject of the sketch is unidentified but the date 4th April 1841 is 12 months to the day that the 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, arrived at Deesa, India, after their engagement as part of the British Army of the Indus in the opening campaigns of the First Anglo-Afghan War. Wingate was a lieutenant in the Queen's Royals and with his regiment had been on the march, in the field, or in battle, since 26 December 1838 when they left their previous cantonment at Belgaum. [ref: R.H. Hunter "Medical history of H,M. 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment ...during the campaign in Afghanistan" in Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, 1840]
[MM, June 2017]

The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/3: Wingate album

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