Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Moore, Lieutenant Joseph
Title:
The Harbour of Port Cornwallis
Date:
1825
Medium:
aquatint
Size:
26 x 27.8 cm
Description:
The Harbour of Port Cornwallis, Island of Great Andaman, with the fleet getting under weigh for Rangoon.
Published Oct. 1 1825, by Kingsbury & Co. 6, Leadenahll Str. & T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill, London.
After Lieutenant Joseph Moore of Her Majesty’s 89th Regiment, British Army. It was one of a series of pictures drawn by Moore that were subsequently published in London in 1825–26 as aquatint plates under the title "Eighteen Views Taken at and near Rangoon". The prints depict various scenes from the First Anglo–Burmese War (1824–26), which the British fought to halt Burmese expansionism and incursions into British India. Rangoon was captured in May 1824.
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Item Code:
P5310
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