Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Moore, Lieutenant Joseph
Title:
The Conflagration of Dalla, on the Rangoon River
Date:
1826
Medium:
aquatint
Size:
26.3 x 36.5 cm
Description:
Published. Jan. 1 1826 by Thos. Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, & Kingsbury & Co. Leadenhall Street, London.
Steam and sailing ships and their crews observing a fire in the distance.
From Series 1 of 'Views taken at or near Rangoon, and Combined operations in the Birman Empire', by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, published in two series 1825-26.
It illustrated the British campaign during the First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824 - 24 February 1826).
Numbered '17' upper right.
Abbey Travel: 404, 17.
References:
Item Code:
P5312
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