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Description: | Coloured aquatint . This aquatint landscape is from a series of prints titled ‘Twenty Four Views of St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia’, published in 1809 and dedicated to Richard Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), the elder brother of the first Duke of Wellington, who became Governor-General of Bengal. The illustrations show places visited by traveller and collector of antiquities Henry Salt during his travels with Viscount Valentia (later the Earl of Mountnorris). Each of the detailed illustrations includes figures in the foreground. The series of prints were met with some acclaim when published in 1809.
This aquatint was Plate 8 of Henry Salt's ‘Twenty Four Views...’ It shows Point de Galle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which was second only to Trincomalee, on the east coast, as Sri Lanka’s most significant harbour. The text which accompanies the image explains that Salt's view was taken:
‘…at the spot where ended a canal... constructed by the Dutch, for the purpose of bringing down from the forests of the interior those beautiful woods, which form the chief ornament of the cabinet-work of Europe.’ | Subjects: | palm topography tree woman landscape C19th cow road house man river | Temporal: | 1809 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Daniell Havell (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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