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George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857-1929)
Pencil | RCIN 931166
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A drawing of a crowd facing right and cheering: including five full-length figures, among them an Indian soldier on the back of a British soldier, raised up to get a better view. Inscribed below: " 'Here, Jump up Cockie"! (sic) The King at the Football ground.
In December 1911 King George V and Queen Mary were proclaimed Emperor and Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar. (A durbar is a court or official reception held, traditionally, by an Indian ruler.) Almost all of the ruling princes and noblemen of India were in attendance, in addition to thousands of other Indian dignitaries, in order to pay obeisance to the symbolic heads of British colonial power. George Percy Jacomb-Hood accompanied the royal couple on their Coronation Tour of the Indian subcontinent, and this drawing is one of the many bound into an album commemorating King George V's and Queen Mary's tours of the empire in 1901, and 1911. -
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RL 31166