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126 x 77 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held at Vacoas on 19 October 1916.

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100 x 62 mm. View looking across a river (possibly the Tamerin) towards distant mountains.

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136 x 79 mm. View looking across a river towards an unidentified house.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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126 x 77 mm. Showing river view with houses in the foreground.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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A collection of coloured 'oilette' postcards of Mauritius, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

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136 x 79 mm. An indistinct view from the sea showing the hilly coastline of Rodriguez, 360 miles east of Mauritius.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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93 x 71 mm. Showing a group of uniformed servants standing at the entrance to Le Reduit.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs of Mauritius, most measuring 80 x 50 mm. The first page has the stencilled title 'Souvenir de I'Ile Maurice' over an outline map of Mauritius with typed place names. On one side is written 'Madame M. Silberman avec les hommages de. S. Ly-Tio-Fane.' On the left is typed 'IMPORTANT. Les references et extraits qui s'y trouvent sont du livre Port-Luis, Deux Siecles d’Histoire, de A. Toussaint.' Toussaint's book appeared in 1936 and the photographs were probably taken...

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76 x 100 mm. Showing the portico of St John's Church.

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241 x 193 mm. The statue is by the French sculptor Augustin Dumont, and was unveiled in the Place d'Armes, Port Louis, in 1859.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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A collection of coloured 'oilette' postcards of Mauritius, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

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225 x 174 mm. View looking across fields of ripening tobacco at the Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens, a few miles north of Port Louis. Experiments in the cultivation of Reunion 'tabac bleu' were started by Bell in 1916.

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105 x 80 mm. Showing a man and woman with a tripod camera and another group of people posing for a photograph all in a wooded area.

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pencil sketch

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79 x 126 mm. Showing the slender pavilion built by Bell on the lake at Government House, Port Louis. The caption (written on the negative) reads 'Petit temple de l'amour, érigé par Sir Hesketh à la memoire du gouverneur David 'Le Reduit' 25.3.22.' The temple was designed by Bell and constructed in 1921.

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131 x 80 mm. Showing a tennis match in the garden at Le Reduit.

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pencil sketch

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241 x 193 mm. View from the sea looking towards the beach, with mountains in the distance.

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137 x 79 mm. View from the sea of St Brandon, main island of the Cargados Carajos group 250 miles NE of Mauritius.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...