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Description: | Coloured aquatint. This view is the fourth in a series of six plates titled ‘Views of St Helena’, published in 1815. George Hutchins Bellasis both drew the views and wrote the accompanying text. The plates were engraved by Robert Havell senior. The text accompanying this plate includess:
‘View No. IV is Plantation-House, a large modern-built edifice, the country residence of the Governor, situated in the most fertile and beautiful part of the Island. It is approached through a handsome iron gate, on each side of which is a neat lodge. Adjoining is a telegraph, which communicates with all the forts and out-posts. The grounds are laid out with great taste; a variety of oriental plants and shrubs grow intermixed with those of the more northern regions...’
This aquatint of the building in Jamestown, St Helena, known as the Governor’s Residence or Plantation House is the earliest image of an existing Government building in the Government Art Collection. Behind the impressive frontage of the Georgian building, two wings enclose a courtyard. Plantation House was constructed in 1791–92, as the country residence for the Governor of the East India Company. | Subjects: | hill mountain government building cow topography volcano tree landscape C19th path country house/mansion man Victorian genre peacock | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Robert Havell Snr (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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