Off Martin Vaas, and Trinidad

This lithograph depicts an East Indiaman at sea with Trindade and Martim Vaz in the distance. The print was plate 4, titled 'Off Martin Vaas, and Trinidad', in John Corbet Anderson’s ‘To India and Back by the Cape, By a Traveller’, printed for the author in 1858. Anderson’s book was a self-published guidebook for travellers to India, featuring eighteenth lithographic plates including views of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Madras [Chennai], Calcutta [Kolkata], Bombay [Mumbai], Mauritius, Madeira, Tristan da Cunha and the Cape Peninsula.