Evers, Samuel, Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers, 1780
- Title(s):
- Inventory of the trunk of Samuel Evers.
- Published/Created:
- 1780.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 pages) ; 25 cm.
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11288878
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- In 1784 Samuel Evers anonymously published an account of his travels: A journal kept on a journey from Bassora to Bagdad, over the little desert to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu, and Otrante, in the year 1779, by a gentleman, late an officer in the service of the Honourable East-India Company (Horsham, 1784). See: Mohamad Ali Hachicho, "English Travel Books about the Arab near East in the Eighteenth Century," in Die Welt des Islams, New Series, vol. 9 (1964), p. 69-70.
Selected exhibitions: "Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830" (Yale Center for British Art, 2008)
Manuscript inventory of a trunk belonging to Lieutenant Samuel Evers, as received from Bussora, examined by Robert Abbott at Aleppo on 17 Feb. 1780. The list includes 31 shirts, 12 white linen waistcoats, 1 brass wash hand basin, 8 books, 1 mahratta cap, and a "Turkish Dress Compleat." - Subject Terms:
- British -- Middle East -- History -- 18th century.Clothing and dress -- Great Britain.Clothing and dress -- Turkey.East India Company -- Officials and employees.Evers, Samuel.Middle East -- Description and travel -- 18th century.
- Form/Genre:
- Inventories.
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