Prints
Artist / Author / Cartographer:
R. H. Colebrooke
J.W. Edy
Title:
India - East View of Bangalore
Date:
1793
Medium:
aquatint
Size:
41.7 x 55.5 cms
Description:
Drawn on the spot by R. H. Colebrooke. Engraved by J.W. Edy. London: Published April 1 1793 for the proprietor by Mr Thomson, No 22 Great Marylebone Street.
A rare early view of Bangalore in Southern India in the late eighteenth century.
Robert Hyde Colebrook did a series of drawings which were engraved by J.W. Edy and first published in 1793 as "Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot."
Reference
Colebrook, Robert Hyde Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1793
Abbey Travel 419 (with coloured plates, and date 1794)
Tooley 149
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Item Code:
P4318
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